2013 (Single)

2013 is one of the most defining songs in DempseyRollBoy’s catalog, with over 2.5 million streams and a reputation as a true fan favorite. It remains a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand him as an artist on a deeper level.

The song looks back on childhood, young love, depression, loneliness, and the moments that shaped him long before music became his outlet. DRB opens up with some of his most vulnerable storytelling, describing memories that are both painful and precious, and the way nostalgia can hurt just as much as it comforts.

Dempsey · 2013

Lyrics

• 2013 (Lyrics)

  Sometimes we can romanticize the past too much

  And it ends up killing us inside

  And even though we know it's bad for us

  We do it anyway

  But that's what makes us human

  Take it back to when this shit was simple now I’m a cursed being

  I’m feeling nostalgic, my memories starts to irk me

  Shadows of the past coming back and it hurts, see

  Everything was different in 2013

  I was just a boy, just a kid, like the rest of em

  Almost blended in, but I didn’t standing next to em

  Everyday I thought about the future, so depressed and um

  I thought better days would come but those were the best of em

  Nothing but dumb, I was young, and I thought I was in love

  I thought that girl was the one, she put her hair in a bun

  She gave me kisses and hugs, she made me happy as fuck

  I was someone she could trust, until I fucked it all up

  I won’t forget where I’m from, I’m leaving here either way

  This is the place I grew up, I hope they keep it the same

  I’m moving on, that’s enough, so there’s no reason to stay

  Recalling all that I’ve done, things I did creep in my brain

  I remember nights I would lie down on the train tracks

  Looking at the stars fall, maybe they were spacecrafts

  Tears falling from my face, demons made the rain dance

  Dempsey had a death wish so he could end the pain fast

  I was a loner that nobody noticed

  The saddest, remotest, when I’m at my lowest

  I’m under hypnosis, I’m somewhat a poet

  That’s made of destruction and broken components

  Looks are deceiving, I’m silently screaming

  I hate when they tease me, it’s hard enough breathing

  And finding a meaning and wanting and needing

  I’m really not living, my heart is just beating

  At times when I’m sleeping, I feel like I’m leaving the planet

  I’m weeping alone in a coffin

  We’re just repeating the process of grieving

  But maybe I’m dreaming, I do that shit often

  Love is appealing but I don’t believe in it

  God is appealing but I don’t believe in him

  Look in the mirror, now what do you see in it

  Trapped in my mind and I don’t wanna be in it

  And I know I might be lost forever but

  I'll always search for myself

  Always

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