Mina's Daily Routine

(Narrator)

Mina woke up this morning and didn't recognize her face in the mirror

So she walked downstairs

Had a cup of coffee

Trying not to cry at 9 am

She didn't get enough sleep but she never does

She didn't eat breakfast and she's stuck on her cellphone

It helps turn her brain off and let her subconscious take over

So she can be alone a while

She walks through the woods behind her house

Hoping to mediate and quiet her mind

But she finds a dead rabbit and thinks of its children

Which doesn't help at all

If you're trapped in your own head

And you go to war with yourself

Every night beneath the starlight

Attempt not to accept that this is

The rest of your life

Mina woke up this morning with the weight of the world

Sitting on her shoulders

Cus she stayed up all night watching YouTube videos

Of the awful things the Nazis did

She cried and ate popcorn till the sun came up

Then drove to school with her eyes still teary

Thinking of genocide

And how much suffering can fit into just one lifetime

She lied in her bunk bed at 2 pm for four hours

So she could just look at trees

Their shadows are haunting

Crawling the earth's surface

Trying to hide from the sun

If you're trapped in your own head

And you go to war with yourself

Every night beneath the starlight

Attempt not to accept that this is the rest of your life

I can't imagine a world without you here

So just hold on

Hold on for life my dear

Oh they're all out to get you

But that won't get you down

As long as you have your noise-canceling headphones

You won't have to face the violent sound

If you're trapped in your own head

And you go to war with yourself

Every night beneath the starlight

Attempt not to accept that this is the rest of your life

I know you're trapped in your own head

I watch you go to war every night

So pick up your weapons and stay alive

Let go and accept that this is the rest of your life