Album

Burnout


Ordinary Lives
Rayneman
Producer: Serena DC
2018

Hook 1 (2x):

Somebody hear my signal of distress

Somebody come and help alleviate this stress

Unremarkable but doing my best

I just need some time to wrap my head around this mess

 

Verse 1:

Always unremarkable, that's how the world makes me feel

Got too many hands pulling on my steering wheel

False freedom, might as well be riding shotgun

As everybody steers me through Knievel long jumps

The only thing expected from my hands is 2 and 10

Cuz everything less than a 10 is just a 2 to them

They say "do your best", their eyes tell you "don't bother"

Expectations higher than parents in soap operas

So what am I to do? Can't let my people down

Gotta cross oceans for 'em even if I drown

And you know that I'd do that shit with zero hesitation

But it would it be too much to show me some appreciation

I know I stumble through my missions, can't do it quick

But I can take the bruises so I don't break these eggs

Yet if I break one, I'm treated like I broke them all

It's so tiring, might as well just take the fall so

 

Repeat hook 1

 

Hook 2:

I need some time, just a minute or two

Don't need to put me in a leash for me to journey with you

My loyalty is infinite for everyone who's worth the time

But don't push me to a self-destructive state of mind

I can only take so much before it bends my psyche

Psychopathic tendencies or psychedelic coping's likely   

Don't gotta psychoanalyze me for a turn out       

I'm one step away from a burnout

I can only take so much before it bends my psyche

Psychopathic tendencies or psychedelic coping's likely   

Don't gotta psychoanalyze me for a turn out       

I'm one step away from a burnout

 

Verse 2:

I never did nobody wrong

But the people in my life make it difficult to get along

I'm always on the giving end of favours

Yet always on receiving end of being called a failure

And a fake just because I take a middle ground

But when things are getting real, they never stick around

Maybe it's exactly 'cause I'm fake

That I never know when to abandon ship until it's too late

All alone, I turn to music

Resonating melodies make me wanna try it too

Cobble up these stories into something moving

And if it's not, the act is still therapeutic

Turn my life to art, is that my only way out?

The only way I'm going to be heard amidst the chaos

When things are spiraling out of control

And we can't speak person to person, make it soul to soul

 

Repeat hooks 1 and 2



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