QUEER american DREAM

Maybe it's awful how I start to sink

On the brink of too many thoughts

I need neon to fill up my lungs

Get so dizzy we're speaking in tongues

I escape my obsessions, all my compulsions

Through mindless selections, overindulgence

At a certain point in the night

At a certain point in the night

At a certain point in the night

Don't we all just turn into poets and take flight?

I'm so sorry, have a drink on me

Just relax, let your mind go free

'Cause when the night's getting louder

If we're both falling over

Let's spill out our secrets and cry

We won't be young for the rest of our lives

I'm a toxic New Yorker with panic disorder

Ride the subway without holding on

I kept all my shirts from St. Marks since before Brownstein's scars

I spent hours and hours thinking of oppressors in powers

Like when will we be free?

I been preaching since I was a teen

But when you're queer, there's no American dream

I'm so sorry, have a drink on me

Just relax, let your mind go free

'Cause when the night's getting louder

I'm so sorry, have a drink on me

If we're both falling over

Let's spill out our secrets and cry

Just relax, let your mind go free

We won't be young for the rest of our lives

I'm so sorry, have a drink on me

Just relax, let your mind go free