What is “Doomscroll Lullaby” about?
"Doomscroll Lullaby" captures a 2 AM spiral through a phone feed, where a war, a dance and a baby video blur into one refresh. Kairo West admits deleting the app on Monday and reinstalling it by noon, compares the pull to a slot machine, and notices he has forgotten how his daughter's laugh sounds in a room. Rather than preaching, he says he is in it too, and the outro tells the listener to close the app and close the eyes. It is the thirteenth track on Baldwin Bus Receipt.
Doomscroll Lullaby lyrics
Two A.M. and the ceiling doing circles over my head
Phone on the pillow like a secret lover in the bed
Blue light on my eyelids, thumb on the autopilot
I been falling through the feed for an hour like a quiet riot
Everybody's happier, everybody's somewhere better
Everybody in the comments is a doctor and a debater
I watch a war, then a dance, then a baby, then a war again
The algorithm don't know me but it knows where my heart has been
I came for the news and the news had teeth in it
I came for a laugh and left with a grief in it
Kendrick said the body is a temple, I'm treating mine like a vending machine
Feeding it outrage at three in the morning like a caffeinated dream
Doomscroll lullaby
Rocking me asleep with the end of the world
Doomscroll lullaby
My whole mind is a refresh unfurled
Somebody put the phone down
Somebody put the phone down
Doomscroll lullaby
Doomscroll lullaby
I forgot my daughter's laugh sounds different in a room
I forgot the smell of coffee when you drink it and you choose
I been outsourcing my nervous system to a stranger's thumb
I been mistaking being informed for being numb
Every notification is a tiny paper cut
Thousand of them in a day, I wonder why my chest is stuck
I deleted the app on Monday, I redownloaded by noon
Withdrawal from a slot machine with a very pretty tune
I ain't saying touch grass like I figured something out
I'm saying I'm in it with you, wandering the drought
I'm saying there's a version of me before all this glow
And sometimes I can almost hear him say hey bro, let's go
Doomscroll lullaby
Rocking me asleep with the end of the world
Doomscroll lullaby
My whole mind is a refresh unfurled
Somebody put the phone down
Somebody put the phone down
Doomscroll lullaby
Doomscroll lullaby
Close the app
Close the eyes
Close the app
Close the eyes
The world will still be here in the morning
And so will you
Close the eyes
Close the app
Close the eyes
Close the app