Written by: Dakota Jerns, Joey Arena, Colt Crevar
Recorded at Aphotic Studios
Produced and mixed by Chris Dawson
Mastered by Mike Kalajian
Video directed by Gus Simpson
Animation by Evelio Puente
Lyrics:
(Living in my mind!)
Every trend fits like a hand-me-down
Frayed at the seams of my borrowed crown
Same words
Same pose
Same pale tattoos
I trace my thoughts
They trace you
(Are they even mine?)
Scroll fed faith in a prefab face
Cut-and-paste dreams on a copied page
Every “new” sound feels déjà vu
Like I’ve already outgrown you
Why does nothing feel unique anymore?
I’m a rerun scene in a looping war
Every thought I think
Already on the shelf
Did I lose my voice
Or was I never myself?
Why does nothing feel unique anymore?
Just a painted mask on a plastic core
I keep digging down
But all that I find
Is everyone else
Living in my mind
Living in my mind!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Your heroes talk in the same three chords
Printed in grey on the same black coats
I scream my truth
But the words ring staged
Like they’ve been rehearsed
For a thousand days
Why does nothing feel unique anymore?
I’m a rerun scene in a looping war
Every thought I think
Already on the shelf
Did I lose my voice
Or was I never myself?
Why does nothing feel unique anymore?
Just a painted mask on a plastic core
I keep digging down
But all that I find
Is everyone else
Living in my mind
Rip my name
Off the spine of the hive
If this is all a copy
Why am I still alive?
If I tear off every label
Rip out every borrowed line
Would there be a pulse beneath
Or would I flatline?
Why does nothing feel unique anymore?
I’m a rerun scene in a looping war
Every thought I think
Already on the shelf
Did I lose my voice
Or was I never myself?
Why does nothing feel unique anymore?
Just a painted mask on a plastic core
I keep digging down
But all that I find
Is everyone else
Living in my mind
Living in my mind!
#SilentTheory #NUstalgia