Since 2020
“Since 2020” Verse 1 We used to knock on doors without a text first Cheap cigarettes, parking lots, talking ‘til it hurt Now everybody disappears behind a screen Typing out opinions nobody really means The city feels colder even in July Everybody documenting every second of their life Everybody’s got a cause, everybody’s got a side Nobody knows how to sit down and be quiet And I swear friends faded overnight One bad tweet and people draw blood online Now every conversation feels like landmines So we joke instead of saying what’s on our minds Pre-Chorus 2AM, doomscrolling again Another war, another trend Another headline saying “this is the end” And I can’t tell what’s real anymore Chorus Since 2020 Nothing feels the same Everybody’s anxious Everybody’s angry Everybody’s tired but addicted to the noise Trying to fill the emptiness with dopamine and voice Since 2020 We lost something good Now the world moves faster than I think it should Everybody’s connected But nobody’s really there We stare into our phones like we’re saying prayers Verse 2 Remember when a weekend used to actually exist? Now every day bleeds together in a digital abyss People build identities from outrage and despair Turning human beings into usernames to tear apart And the lockdown changed us more than we admit Some never came back from the isolation with it Now crowds feel weird and silence feels worse Everybody laughs loud trying to hide the hurt I’ve seen people fall into conspiracy rabbit holes Others disappear into politics like religion stole their souls Families split apart over things they read online While billionaires sell apocalypse in real time Pre-Chorus And every month there’s something new Floods, riots, crime, breaking news The whole world feels permanently bruised And I can’t tell what matters anymore Chorus Since 2020 Nothing feels the same Everybody’s anxious Everybody’s angry Everybody’s scared that the future disappeared So we numb ourselves with content every waking year Since 2020 The air changed somehow Like we’re all just surviving in the aftermath now Everybody’s talking But nobody cuts through And every night feels like the world’s about to break in two Bridge Maybe the world didn’t end that year Maybe it just showed us what was already here Loneliness hidden under neon lights People begging to be loved through Wi-Fi And I miss being bored I miss being young I miss when friendship wasn’t measured in response time I miss when life happened somewhere outside Before we lived inside our minds all night Final Chorus Since 2020 I don’t know who we became Half the world’s exhausted Half the world inflamed Everybody searching for somebody else to blame While the rich get richer off attention and pain Since 2020 I’ve been trying to feel alive Trying to remember what it felt like outside Maybe we’re not broken Maybe just afraid Trying to find each other through the static and the rage Outro 3AM, another endless feed Another tragedy I’m too tired to read Close my eyes but the screen still glows blue Since 2020 Nothing feels true anymore
