Lyrics The New Narcissistic American Dream - Frameworks

The New Narcissistic American Dream

So convinced of our own
Untapped greatness
It creates this crisis of unmet expectation
Demanding a promotion
Regardless of performance
We’d rather win a lottery
Than any honest earning
The new narcissistic American Dream
Accoladed fame and fortune
To the inflated self-esteem
Conditioned to want more
Nothing more than a mantle piece
Something to vault post to our feeds
Something used to leverage ourselves
Further up the social totem pole
Nothing more than a memory
Captured to fluff our identities
Something to distance ourselves
Further from our own reality
Overstimulate until you
Oversaturate and lose
Capacity to feel anything
Climb just to see
And not to be seen
Deep in the marrow
Deep in your deam