Dopamine Fiend cover art

Dopamine Fiend

Single · 2025

Lyrics

Scrolling in bed We live to forget Cuz memories left Minimal dividends Fight it til the bitter end The feeling coming up again Nothing but the breath And tap on the glass Concurrently soothing and cursing Coercing out the worst of me Interspersed in everything I am the anathema and enemy That I have been trying to leave I'm finding it hard to believe That there is no reprieve

Pleasure is spent Every dopamine receptor once vacant Now is caved in I've been craving so much god damn Stimulation Overloading every inhalation It's not medication

Just masticating media Mash it in my holes and eat up Power meat with calories So I can drain the battery Devour the feed even sedentary I can be What they said I'd be A golden trophy for being Cuz Jesus wants me! (What?) For a sunbeam Ain't that something? (Yeah!)

Don't gotta contribute because I'm already wanted Boredom? No issue Work? Only an option

Co-opted by the authors of the code Co-owned by the fathers of the most Coastal hosting power and towered servers Our souls on the menu, dinner is served

Every minute we are given laid to waste In our palms; napalm for the brain Graze the feed 'til every human being… is merely… a dopamine fiend

Every neuron we inherited we burn Our media; a meteor hit 'til we're mediocre Gaze at screens 'til mastery is obsolete and God has gone extinct

Got a whole generation never learned how to be Anything but a consuming NPC Say what you want about the boomers but they knew How to tie their boots Do what you want Don't (ex)pect the world to want you

Tune into YouTube or virtually Any virtual reality To sideline scream through the screen so virtuously Whatever ideology the algorithm feeds to me

Doing nothing that counts We're down for the count Figuring out What so-in-so posts about or how to get our Like count up We're fucked No skills but hyped to take it high up our butts

Not right to criticize but I can recognize that I'm the guy who I decry and that is why I can describe my kind precisely

Content with false prophets To profit off our content nicely

Every minute we are given laid to waste In our palms; napalm for the brain Graze the feed 'til every human being… is merely… a dopamine fiend

Every neuron we inherited we burn Our media; a meteor hit 'til we're mediocre Gaze at screens 'til mastery is obsolete and God has gone extinct

When banging the veins Or railing cocaine Or smoking meth you're given every reason to change But the pain from the FAANG Straight to the brain Without a pusher to exchange with And no powder on the face No trace So we do it every day

We all do it anyway, why say nay? Play the game, give your power away

A blue-jeaned, black turtlenecked dude once said Think different. But instead:

Lines of PHP and C++ and a screen keep us cornered and stuck They "move fast and break things" And they break us Reinforcing Depression and addiction Obsessed and submissive Respect this religion This Silicone system How twisted is it That some code that was written Can degenerate a whole generation?

So crudely It's a cruelty The collective psyche is blinded When seeing rightly is vital There is no rival for the primal drive And idle eyes The divine dies like a vine in the Bible We worship this flickering idol We traded our minds for some likes though We traded our minds for some likes yo?

Every minute we are given laid to waste In our palms; napalm for the brain Graze the feed 'til every human being… is merely… a dopamine fiend

Every neuron we inherited we burn Our media; a meteor hit 'til we're mediocre Gaze at screens 'til mastery is obsolete and God has gone extinct

Credits

Written & performed by
allisawe
Artwork by
Austin Bentley
Released
September 19, 2025 · allisawe
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