DOPAMINE PRAYERS [Intro] I used to think being destroyed Made you interesting. ⸻ [Verse 1] Motel Bible in the bedside drawer, Lipstick kisses on the hotel floor. Every saint in this city drinks alone, Every “I love you” sounds better through a telephone. Cherry-red mouth, silver cross chain, Young enough to still romanticize pain. We made bad habits look cinematic, Turned self-destruction into aesthetics. I wore my sadness like designer clothes, Cut too deep just to see what grows. Funny thing about living for the thrill— Nobody notices until you stand still. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] And every empty promise came dressed in gold, We were just kids trying hard not to feel old. ⸻ [Chorus] Dopamine prayers in the bathroom light, Cheap salvation for a Friday night. Everybody wants to feel alive, So we blur the edges, pretend we’re fine. Oh my God, we were beautiful wrecks, Heartbeats wired to cigarettes. Praying somebody, somewhere, somewhere hears us— Dopamine prayers never save us. ⸻ [Verse 2] You kissed me hard like a warning sign, Like love and disaster shared the same design. Your hands shook soft when they touched my face, Like even you knew we were temporary. Outside the club, holy neon glow, Everybody’s high but nobody feels close. We traded real life for chemical sparks, Now we’re just ghosts with expensive hearts. There’s a loneliness money can’t hide, A kind that follows you home every night. So we dance like the world’s ending soon, Trying not to think in the silence of our rooms. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] And every empty promise came dressed in gold, We were dying young trying not to grow old. ⸻ [Chorus] Dopamine prayers in the bathroom light, Cheap salvation for a Friday night. Everybody wants to feel alive, So we blur the edges, pretend we’re fine. Oh my God, we were beautiful wrecks, Heartbeats wired to cigarettes. Praying somebody, somewhere, somewhere hears us— Dopamine prayers never save us. ⸻ [Bridge] Maybe heaven’s just a moment of peace, Maybe hell is never learning how to leave. Maybe every little high steals tomorrow, Leaves you dancing with your shadow. We were kids in borrowed halos, Spinning slow beneath the strobe. Laughing loud to hide the silence, Breaking softly where it never showed. [whispered] We weren’t evil… Just unbearably human. ⸻ [Final Chorus] Dopamine prayers under fluorescent halos, Young forever in a city of shadows. Everybody wants to feel alive, So we blur the edges, pretend we’re fine. Oh my God, we were beautiful wrecks, Broken hearts in designer dress. And nobody’s coming down here to save us— Dopamine prayers never save us. Never save us. ⸻ [Outro] I used to think sadness made people holy. Now I think surviving does.
