Little Pieces of Happy Trinket (Fire Cut)

[Start] [Intro – Shimmering Synth Pads / Candy Wrapper Crinkle] There is a tiny square in my hand. Brown. Glossy. Suspiciously affordable. [pause] It knows why I came. [Beat Drops – Bright 80s Power Synth] [Verse 1] Little piece of chocolate Melting on my tongue Tiny sugar sunrise Making old nerves young Milk and cocoa holding hands In a silver wrapper church One small bite and suddenly The universe has merch Caramel moon in a candy shell Nougat cloud in a paper bed Every little bite says, “Darling, leave the serious people unfed.” [Pre-Chorus] No bitter lecture No solemn bean No seventy-nine percent Existential cuisine Give me sweet Give me soft Give me joy without a quiz I don’t need my candy asking What adulthood really is [Chorus] Little pieces of happy Little squares of light Milk-chocolate miracles Making everything right Sweet, sweet candy Tiny joy machine Wrapped in shiny colors Like a snack-sized fever dream Little pieces of happy Melt the trouble down Put a little sugar On this aggressively difficult town [Electric Violin Solo – Bright / Playful / Rising] [Verse 2] Peanut butter tucked inside Like gossip in a coat Cookie bits and crispy rice Keeping small delights afloat Candy bars in checkout lanes Know the weak and weary well They don’t judge your shopping list They just ring a tiny bell I bought one for the drive back home Then ate it in the lot Bought another for “much later” Later lasted seven seconds. A personal record. [Pre-Chorus] Keep your continental cocoa With its stern and joyless stare If the label needs a passport There’s too much thinking there Give me creamy Give me sweet Give me candy made to grin Chocolate should not taste like Someone locked the sunshine in a bin [Chorus] Little pieces of happy Little squares of light Milk-chocolate miracles Making everything right Sweet, sweet candy Tiny joy machine Wrapped in shiny colors Like a snack-sized fever dream Little pieces of happy Melt the trouble down Put a little sugar On this aggressively difficult town [Bridge – Synths Pull Back / Dramatic Spoken Vocal] They say sugar is temporary. So are sunsets. So are songs. So is every good haircut I have ever paid too much for. [pause] Temporary joy is still joy. And this one has nougat. [Beat Explodes / Electric Violin Duel] [Break – Call-and-Response] Chocolate! (Melt it!) Candy! (Hide it!) Wrapper! (Crinkle!) Last piece! (Denied it!) Milk sweet! (Absolutely!) Dark bitter! (Unnecessarily!) One more bite! (For science!) [Extended Electric Violin Solo – Wild / Heroic / Glitching] [Verse 3] Little chocolate fingerprints Decorate my Sunday clothes Evidence of happiness In places no one knows Every wrapper in the bin Is a tiny flag I flew For the right to taste a moment That was uncomplicated through Maybe life is mostly static Maybe joy arrives in crumbs Maybe heaven is a candy aisle Where every little wrapper hums [Final Chorus] Little pieces of happy Little squares of light Milk-chocolate miracles Making everything right Sweet, sweet candy Tiny joy machine Wrapped in shiny colors Like a snack-sized fever dream Little pieces of happy Melt the trouble down Put a little sugar On this aggressively difficult town Little pieces of happy Soft and sweet and small You don’t have to save the world You can just improve the mall [Outro – Music Box Synth / Electric Violin Harmonics] There was one piece left. I saved it for tomorrow. [pause] That was a lie. [wrapper crinkles] Tomorrow has poor boundaries. [End]