I don’t really have anything to say about the rest of the song, but the chorus is personal to me, because I believe it is talking about addiction. I relate to this because I am addicted to YouTube shorts and these lyrics hit close to home for me. “You can’t wake up, this is not a dream”, means that people have tried to ignore it or turn away from addiction, and may even have succeeded for a time, but in the end, most of us come back to addiction, a nightmare it’s hard to wake up from. Being part of a machine especially hits home for me. Not only does it imply that you can’t control your addictive behavior, but for me personally, I just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling like it was what I was programmed to do, like I wasn’t human anymore. The words, “Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline” and “these voices won’t leave me alone” show me something that I do all the time. After I finally get off my phone and do something else, I don’t really feel like myself. And, when I check how long I’ve been on YouTube, the voices in my head start beating me up because of how long I’ve been on and the fact that I can’t control it. That is why the chorus of the song is very relatable to me and my addiction. Also, I’ve seen many content creators on YouTube use this song, and that’s how I got introduced to it.
I don’t really have anything to say about the rest of the song, but the chorus is personal to me, because I believe it is talking about addiction. I relate to this because I am addicted to YouTube shorts and these lyrics hit close to home for me. “You can’t wake up, this is not a dream”, means that people have tried to ignore it or turn away from addiction, and may even have succeeded for a time, but in the end, most of us come back to addiction, a nightmare it’s hard to wake up from. Being part of a machine especially hits home for me. Not only does it imply that you can’t control your addictive behavior, but for me personally, I just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling like it was what I was programmed to do, like I wasn’t human anymore. The words, “Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline” and “these voices won’t leave me alone” show me something that I do all the time. After I finally get off my phone and do something else, I don’t really feel like myself. And, when I check how long I’ve been on YouTube, the voices in my head start beating me up because of how long I’ve been on and the fact that I can’t control it. That is why the chorus of the song is very relatable to me and my addiction. Also, I’ve seen many content creators on YouTube use this song, and that’s how I got introduced to it.