“I think we’re thinking the same thing… if this is how it ends, I wasn’t listening!” – Finneas – Can’t Wait To Be Dead
Global (23 October 2020) – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create trauma around the world with lives lost every day, Billie Eilish’s older brother Finneas has released “Can’t Wait To Be Dead,” a song about our love-hate relationship with social media, the global pandemic, political upheaval in 2020, racism and how divided the world has become.
Finneas Baird O’Connell (born July 30, 1997), known mononymously as Finneas, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has written and produced music for various artists including his younger sister, Billie Eilish. He won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his work on Eilish’s debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019).
Finneas has released several singles as a solo artist, and his debut EP, Blood Harmony, was released on October 4, 2019. The EP includes “Let’s Fall in Love for the Night”; it is Finneas’ most successful song to date, peaking at number 17 on the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart. As an actor, Finneas starred in the 2013 independent film Life Inside Out. He is also known for his role as Alistair in the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.
“I’m happy for this song to mean anything to anyone who listens to it, but, to me, it’s a song about my relationship with the internet,” Finneas said in a statement.
“Especially in an election year. Especially during a pandemic. Sometimes, the internet makes me laugh, sometimes it makes me cry, sometimes it makes me hopeful. But sometimes, it really makes me wanna be dead.”
The new song follows his emotional ballad releases in September called “What They’ll Say About Us”.
Watch the music video for Can’t Wait To Be Dead here:
Can’t Wait To Be Dead Lyrics:
Somebody’s driving you home, but they don’t know who you are
You’re in the back of the car
Somebody’s trying to help and making everything worse,
Somebody please call the nurse
Somebody’s ripping you off, trying to sell you good news
You know we’re still gonna lose,
But I need to be where you are, for no reason at all or else I’ll suffer withdrawls
Nobody’s coming to save me
Nobody knows any better anyway
I think we’re thinking the same thing
If this is how it ends, I wasn’t listening
Somebody’s screaming again,
Another sunburn with hair, it’s too much fun not to stare
Somebody’s calling you out for something you never said,
Kinda can’t wait to be dead
Somebody’s wasting my time,
Fuck your Confederate flag, you’ve got no reason to brag
Nobody’s coming to save me
Nobody knows any better anyway
I think we’re thinking the same thing
If this is how it ends, I wasn’t listening
(to you) x2
I wasn’t listening yet
Not even gone but you’ll be missing me yet
I wasn’t listening yet
I wasn’t listening
I wasn’t listening yet
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