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Lost in distant memories Reliving the times in-between Sun-bleached melancholy & broken dreams Reverie in undertones Disembodied echoes Empty high school halls —repetitive drumming— Teenage games & rituals Bleachers in sunset’s haze —sun-bleached horizon line Golden locks flow like amber waves —peroxide-bleached highlights Fading light begins to break Floodlight soccer games Victory—it slips away Storylines left undone Of teenage Americans Raised in suburbia All they know is anhedonia
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Feb 8
Feb 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM UTC
SUN-BLEACHED MELANCHOLY
Lost in distant memories Reliving the times in-between Sun-bleached melancholy & broken dreams Reverie in undertones Disembodied echoes Empty high school halls —repetitive drumming— Teenage games & rituals Bleachers in sunset’s haze —sun-bleached horizon line Golden locks flow like amber waves —peroxide-bleached highlights Fading light begins to break Floodlight soccer games Victory—it slips away Storylines left undone Of teenage Americans Raised in suburbia All they know is anhedonia
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Feb 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM UTC
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