Toxic Positivity from SingLes by 185668232

“No Roof, No Rest”

(Verse 1)
They called him a dreamer, said he was lost,
Walking the city, counting the cost.
Spoke of a world where no one would fall,
But no one believed him, no one at all.

(Pre-Chorus)
He swore that the streets weren’t made for the cold,
That shelter’s a right, not something that’s sold.
But when he cried out, they turned him away,
Called him deluded, called him insane.

(Chorus)
No roof, no rest, no mercy tonight,
Another soul fades in the dim neon light.
He reached for a world where the doors would stay wide,
But they locked him out, so he stepped outside…

(Verse 2)
They wrote off his words like fevered mistakes,
“Universal? That’s something you fake.”
They never saw hunger twist in his spine,
Or the weight of the rain in the heat of July.

(Bridge)
And when they found him, the papers all said,
“A troubled young man, something wrong in his head.”
But they never saw the walls closing in,
How silence can kill just as much as the wind servers will winded tight

(Outro)
No roof, no rest, just names on a page,
Another lost soul they won’t try to save.
He dreamt of a world where the suffering ceased,
But dreaming alone doesn’t grant you release.

• Experimental
• avant garde
• glitch
• noise
• post-pop
• singer-songwriter
• Brooklyn