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5g

Release date: 2nd December 2022

From hypochondriac
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About This Track

Brakence examines the machinery of self-sabotage and digital distraction on '5g', a track that moves between personal reckoning and systemic critique. The song finds him caught between the need for external validation and the knowledge that seeking it corrodes him from within, his chest tightening as he scrolls through the night unable to grieve. He positions himself as complicit, profiting from the same attention-farming systems that hollow him out, aware of the damage but unable to step away. The production mirrors this entrapment, cycling through verses that layer accusation with confession. Brakence names the specific texture of modern anxiety: the pedestal that feels like a trap, the edible taken to dull the tightness, the way old friendships collapse under the weight of perceived superiority. By the final verse, the scope widens to implicate the infrastructure itself, the corporations harvesting human attention as a resource. Yet even as he articulates the problem with clarity, he remains caught inside it, unable to find solid ground.

"5g" is a track by brakence, from the album hypochondriac, released 2nd December 2022. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

5g

[Chorus]

Baby, don't be my crutch when this shit get gory

Got that radioactive touch, I'm from purgatory, she heard the story

I've been wearin' a demon, I've barely been eatin', I'm

Scrollin' all night, that's why I can't get to grieving

Baby, don't be my crutch when this shit get gory

Got that radioactive touch, I'm from purgatory, she heard the story

I've been wearin' a demon, I've barely been eatin', I'm

Scrollin' all night

[Verse 1]

Break it all down, like what does it mean to me? (Exclusive)

I got in this position so damn easily

Think I got good intentions, I got decency

But am I really a good person when I need to be? I need to bе

He put me on a pedеstal and liked nine tweets

I'm gettin' this tightness in my chest that make me grind my teeth

So I'ma just take another edible and go 5g

Old friends, they hate me now, I'm never gonna find my feet

[Pre-Chorus]

Always puttin' myself above you to feel important

No, I'm never gon' take that dub, I can't be rewarded, go re-record it

I've been wearin' a demon, I've barely been eatin', I'm

Scrollin' all night, that's why I can't get to grieving

[Chorus]

Baby, don't be my crutch when this shit get gory

Got that radioactive touch, I'm from purgatory, she heard the story

I've been wearin' a demon, I've barely been eatin', I'm

Scrollin' all night

Oh, don't be my crutch when this shit get gory

Got that radioactive touch, I'm from purgatory, I'm—

Nah, never gon' need your love, I can't feel supported

Got this feelin' in my gut, dread it every morning

Heat distortion, it's—

[Verse 2]

(Eyes on a phone)

Reason to get my head out of shit I regret

(Eyes on a phone)

Read me in overtime and it's nothing but net

(Eyes on a phone)

Yeah, feast on an open mind, I can't budget the feed

(Eyes on a phone)

They're farmin' our attention for a buck, like are you people?

(Eye, eye, eye)

They're using eyes like a resource

That's when I start to think we're fucked, there ain't no recourse

I profit off keystrokes, playin' into it, fillin' my plate

Unstoppable heat source, burnin' off any minute I take it

And when I die, I hope I'm buried in a forest

That is if any of it's left, this shit is torrid

For now, I'm using up my gift to write a chorus

[Pre-Chorus]

Always puttin' myself above you to feel important

No, I'm never gon' take that dub, I can't be rewarded, go re-record it

I've been wearin' a demon, I've barely been eatin', I'm

Scrollin' all night (Ahh)

[Chorus]

Baby, don't be my crutch when this shit get gory

Got that radioactive touch, I'm from purgatory, she heard the story

I've been wearin' a demon, I've barely been eatin', I'm

Scrollin' all night, that's why I can't get to grieving (Break it all down, like what does it mean?)

[Bridge]

They're layin' waste to a new biome

To make a case for the new iPhone

The waters laced and they know I know

Wearin' a demon, I can't get to grieving, I—

[Outro]

(Hollywood) Can't get to grieving, I

Gotta repeat it, I (Just give up)

(Hollow) Too busy dreaming (Just give up)

Part of my (No), that's why I can't (Just—), that's why

A hypochondriac, I think of you, blood pressure spikes

I'll have a heart attack, the things I do—

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2022
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