Millicow - Icy Cheeks

★ Verse 1 ★
All day in the car wearing icy cheeks
It breaks their hearts every time he leaves
He breaks apart in the driving seat
She aches, her heart, every time it beats
Being away so far, this is why he weeps
Each day is harder, feeling tiny and weak
All day in the car wearing icy cheeks
Can't take much more saying five more weeks
State line crossed and sad cries following, had it all then, now I'm alone again
Late night calling, red eyеs bawling, said I'm all in but I'm falling
Cause my wallet just ain't got enough shit in it to comе visit
Only sawdust from my pocket cause my job eats all my time up
So I'm bothered, we cry harder each departure, end this torture
Days of sorrow, weeks pass on and I'm not there to be a father
Tell me honest please why are there rich ten figure leeching hoarders
Why would someone believe ever this behavior seems in order?
Cause they don't do shit about the simple fact we're sinking under
Always down through history we're living cramped in weakening structures
Upside down priorities, our spending can't all be on warfare
Can't account for trillions went missing like they don't even care?
We have the means to change these things
Look, one percent of our war budget
Equals seven billion, can you imagine
We put this money into our public?
Cause all we need is housing, please, the
Government we trusted gives no fucks when
The cost of living breaks our knees and
No one's talking about these things

★ Chorus ★
This isn't motherfucking normal
This isn't something to ignore, no
They're sucking us dry
Cause death to them is more important than life

★ Verse 2 ★
I write to show that it's time for the change
When we slide back home from that frightful state
Of survival mode, can't find a place
To call my home. Will I go broke?
Live on the roads inside a car that
Survived so far but might fall apart
Rip my soul apart with my home so far
And I work so hard but I can't support
Keep asking for help cause I'm nasty ill
And I can't pay bills so my headspace health
Is a hellscape here I'm possessed by fear
Can't rest, night terrors, my stress reappears
My life trajectory a knife that sticks in me
Survival physically feels like futility
At times it's sickening but I think differently
I find the lessons speak in life's difficulty
Bright side in every day I write about the rain
I find the words to say and light the darkest place
The fire can't be contained inside my burning brain
These lines just fill the page, I fight to be heard today
Cause if you can't relate, you got your cards to thank
And if you disagree, your lucky stars just gave you
Opportunities that aren't in tune with me
I try to be the voice of the silent majority
I can't stress enough the fact
We possess enough tech and intellect to connect
And correct the foremost sources of what is broken
Can't we all have a home, a little space to roam?
Does anybody care, like truly care?
Anybody with the spare to be human and share?
When ninety percent of us find surviving so expensive
That dying is tempting and our society don't give a shit
See what's wrong, how they make our eyes close
By keeping us all in a state of survival
Feeling this weight on our backs til our minds fold
Eons have came and then passed as we die cold
We need to change something fast, end the cycle

★ Chorus ★
This isn't motherfucking normal
This isn't something to ignore, no
They're fucking us dry
Cause death to them is more important than life!

★ Verse 3 ★
I'm not begging for pity; I just want to know why
We've taken their beatings for all of this time
A servant to the public ought to help us all thrive
But they spend all our money blowing up the next guy
Can't we all have a home, a decent space of our own?
Is that too much to fucking ask?
Because ninety percent of us find surviving so expensive that
Dying is tempting us, and society don't give a fuck