No Rare Drops

Lyrics by Ivory Ireton Voice By Ivory Ireton Verse 1 Flickering lights and plastic dreams Coins disappear into machines Turn the wheel, pull the chain Same cheap price again, again A smiling face behind the glass Promises that this one lasts But every spin feeds the need Hope’s expensive when it breeds Pre-Chorus I count the odds inside my head Chasing ghosts of what was said “Next time, maybe hold the line” But fate was never mine Chorus Life is a gamble, loaded and cruel Playing by the house-made rules Roll the dice, pay the cost Winning small while losing lots Love’s a lottery I can’t win Scratch the surface, nothing within Ticket after ticket, all the same Cheap consolation, different name No rare drops No miracle prize Just blinking lights And beautiful lies Verse 2 I met lovers like vending slots Insert a heart, get random thoughts Some gave glitter, some gave pain Most just vanished in the rain Golden labels, hollow cores Shiny wrappers, nothing more Every promise factory-made Mass-produced and quickly frayed Pre-Chorus I learned desire can counterfeit Make trash look infinite Every almost cuts like truth Stealing what remains of youth Chorus Life is a gamble, loaded and cruel Playing by the house-made rules Roll the dice, pay the cost Winning small while losing lots Love’s a lottery I can’t win Scratch the surface, nothing within Ticket after ticket, all the same Cheap consolation, different name No rare drops No miracle prize Just blinking lights And beautiful lies Bridge Still, I feed the machine Still, I chase what I’ve never seen Maybe somewhere past despair There’s something honest, something rare Or maybe all we ever are Broken signals from afar Static hearts in endless night Calling wrong and calling right Final Chorus Life is a gamble, sharp and unfair Still, we breathe electric air Still, we reach through loss and doubt Still refuse to cash out Love’s a lottery stained by chance Yet we keep asking fate to dance Maybe one day through the noise We’ll find more than plastic joys No rare drops… But I’m still here One more coin One more year Outro The machine keeps humming Cold and bright I press start Into the night