Track 5 of "Mic Check, Please!", a "Check, Please!" inspired EP!

Fun fact: this was one of the last songs I wrote for this project! I realized I needed more songs from Bitty’s perspective to even it out, so I basically went “I want a song titled ‘this boy’” and just kinda let that idea take me wherever it wanted to go while writing

Song art by https://karin848.tumblr.com/ 
 Mixing/backing vocals by https://soundcloud.com/alecferris  
Read the comic this was inspired by here!: www.checkpleasecomic.com/comic/01-01-01

Mic Check, Please!

this boy

just a kid

Past Life

written, produced and sung by me :)
cover art and additional lyrics by ryan diaz

moon song (2023) version

CRUELTY

stream on spotify/itunes/etc: smarturl.it/tvhead

[Verse 1]
I wear a TV screen on my head, play the happy channels
Channel happy thoughts, make the people happy 
(I'm not happy)
Flip dials, try to tune the mind I'm holding hostage
Never mind, I lost it 
(Stop it!)

I'm a crazy, people
Showing people what they wanna see on a TV screen so they'll face me

I feel the static in the air I breathe
It's getting harder to keep holding up this TV 

[Chorus]
Got a TV Head
I wake up with my brain scattered
Feel numb, put on a screen cuz it's easier to just pretend
Mama says: "always try to look your best, 
always try to look your best, TV Head"

[Verse 2]
Instead of looking like I feel, making everybody wonder
Should I even be here anyway?
Cuz when the only thing that's real is the meaning hidden under what I try to write on the page
Maybe that's why I'm here: they need me

I feel the static in the air I breathe
It's getting harder to keep holding up this TV 

[Chorus]
Got a TV Head
I wake up with my brain scattered
Feel numb, put on a screen cuz it's easier to just pretend
Mama says: "always try to look your best, 
always try to look your best, TV Head"

I'm happy on the outside 
But dying on the inside baby 
I'm happy on the outside 
But dying on the inside, save me 
I'm happy on the outside 
But dying on the inside baby 
I'm happy on the outside 
I'm happy on the outside 

[Chorus]
Got a TV Head
I wake up with my brain scattered
Feel numb, put on a screen cuz it's easier to just pretend
Mama says: "always try to look your best"

Got a TV Head
I wake up with my brain scattered
Feel numb, put on a screen cuz it's easier to just pretend
Mama says: "always try to look your best, TV head"
TV Head

moon song (2023) version

lucky.eye

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