[Verse 1]
We got degrees in the drawer
Dust on the borrowed frame
They said the world was open
Now it all feels like a game
Rent went up again this month
My car makes that same cough
I did everything they asked me
Still I can’t get enough
[Pre-Chorus]
And the map was a lie
Folded in our hands
Every door said try
Then it changed the plans
[Chorus]
Millennial problems
We were told we could fly
Millennial problems
Now we’re just trying to get by
Millennial problems
House keys out of reach
Millennial problems
Dreams with a monthly fee
[Verse 2]
My friend moved back with his mother
Said the market ate his name
She keeps saying keep your chin up
Like that’s supposed to tame
The nights we count the overdraft
The loans like open wounds
We learned to laugh in group texts
Then go quiet in the room
[Pre-Chorus]
And the floor boards bend
Under all this weight
We keep starting again
On a budgeted faith
[Chorus]
Millennial problems
We were told we could fly
Millennial problems
Now we’re just trying to get by
Millennial problems
House keys out of reach
Millennial problems
Dreams with a monthly fee
[Bridge]
If hope had a checkout line
We’d be the ones who wait
Hands full of old advice
And a future stuck in place
Still I hear us sing
Through the foreclosure rain
We’re not broken, baby
We’re just naming the pain
[Final Chorus]
Millennial problems
We were told we could fly
Millennial problems
Still we learn how to survive
Millennial problems
We keep making a home
Millennial problems
In a world that changed its tone