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Sunburn

K.Flay
Track 3 on Eyes Shut 

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Jan. 31, 20121 viewer15.1K views

Sunburn Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Feeling like I might might drift drift off into a new dimension
Jack in the motherfucking box I got quarter pounder distention
Too many made up characters vying for my attention
I’m cold and I’m lonely, just floating toward the light
Think that I might get a kick out of life if life was more like a sitcom
Lies I’ve been fed by some bitch exec, boy that’s what I bit on
So tired, all I wanna do’s just find something to sit on
Don’t tell me I’m melting please help me unh uh wait a minute
So so soporific I’m in the midst of apathy, see
Sensing next to nothing but that’s the point exactly

Suppose I better do what my toes have asked of me
People waving, blind to what I’m facing

[Chorus]
Watch as I spin these blades
Let my mind just fly
Sun burning on my face
Time to say goodbye
So much I’ll never know
No, I don’t want an answer, answer
If you need to be questioning me I’m separate see, so you can ask her, ask her

[Verse 2]
It takes a dozen hits just to numb out half my pain
My father looks down on me and says what a crying shame
Incompetently navigating treacherous terrain
Sleep or stay awake well it’s really all the same
Popping a handful of Xanax just to just to, just to manage
Filling my head with feelies til my brain it turns to cabbage
Mapping up out my fate with a random collection of Mad-Libs
Aiming for slightly below average
Sinking slowly, getting sleepy
Living mostly cause it’s easy
Sticking closely to the line
Looking happy, feeling breezy
Walking past now do you see me
It’s getting better all the time
[Chorus]
Watch as I spin these blades
Let my mind just fly
Sun burning on my face
Time to say goodbye
So much I’ll never know
No, I don’t want an answer, answer
If you need to be questioning me I’m separate see, so you can ask her, ask her

[Verse 3]
Wasting everything, all my vigor and my youth
Diluting the confusion I am choosing what is truth
I’ve got no use for future plans, used to care but now I don’t
Do almost anything I can to hide the fact I’ll die alone
Not worried about my taxes, not giving a flying fuck
Not worried about my ashes, that one day will turn to dust
Not thinking that I should listen, just wanna be feeling great
Doesn’t matter what’s the prison rest assured I will escape

[Bridge]
Watch as I spin these blades
Sun burning on my face
So much I’ll never know
No, I don’t want an answer, answer
I don’t want an answer
[Chorus]
Watch as I spin these blades
Let my mind just fly
Sun burning on my face
Time to say goodbye
So much I’ll never know
No, I don’t want an answer, answer
If you need to be questioning me I’m separate see, so you can ask her, ask her

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Sunburn is the third track on K. Flay’s 2012 EP Eyes Shut It was completely written, produced, and engineered by K. Flay.

The song has an overarching theme of depression and nihilism, as it shows pieces of K. Flay’s life through her apathetic and sometimes sarcastic perspective.

This song was remixed by the EDM artist Big Chocolate, that premiered via a noticably DIY style music video, that starred both K. Flay and Big Chocolate performing together through a picture-in-picture format to resemble a Skype call.


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Release Date
January 31, 2012
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