Alternative songs - Crows and Bunnies Project

Phone light, slow scroll, same small room

Click-click headlines cut too soon

Red thread, dead feed, repeat, rewind

Tick-tock talk stuck in my mind

Voices rise, won't let it land

One digs in, the other just stands

Short words snap from a tight-lipped grin

Closed mouths choke what we're holdin' in

Buzz, break, blink—don't breathe, don't think

Live wire lines at the mental brink

I'm reaching through the noise, are you there with me?

In the dead of the night, trying to feel alive

We're drifting in the silence, wide awake, alone

Every word just fades into a hollow tone

I don't wanna live like this, automatic—

I don't wanna love through static

Group chat blows up, back and forth

Same damn fight, still wanting more

March chants crash on a crowded street

While I count change just to make ends meet

Upstairs kid with a split-screen stance

Quick-click quips in a cold glance

Both type tight like truth's in the text

Then sit still, stressed, second-guess

Ping, push, pull—too much, too full

Thin skin stretched, can't take much more

I'm reaching through the noise, are you there with me?

In the dead of the night, trying to feel alive

We're drifting in the silence, wide awake, alone

Every word just fades into a hollow tone

I don't wanna live like this, automatic—

I don't wanna love through static

Put it down…

Just stop for a minute

Not the feed, not the fight

Not the need to be right

Just… here

I can see you now in a different light

Not a name on a screen, but a real, real life

We were lost in the noise, now we're finally here

Every breath, every word coming in clear

I don't wanna live like this, automatic—

I don't wanna love through static

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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I rehearse the conversation

Before I say hello

Every word I don't wanna say

Is the only thing I know

My hands are shaking in my pockets

Like they're hiding from the truth

Everyone here looks so comfortable

Like they know what to do

I'm counting breaths like change in my hand

Don't look weird, just stand, just stand

Smile like you belong somehow

Even though you're breaking down

It's too loud inside my head

Every thought is something I said

Or something I should've said instead

I'm fine, I swear, I'm not myself

I disappear in crowded rooms

I overthink the way I move

I'm screaming quiet, speaking mute

I'm fine, I swear, I'm not myself

I read the room like a warning sign

Every laugh feels aimed at me

I'm the punchline I invented

In a joke nobody sees

I'm good at faking normal

I've been practicing for years

But the mirror knows my real face

When nobody's near

My heartbeat's louder than the band

Why's it hard just to be a man?

Why's it hard just to stay calm

When nothing's even wrong?

It's too loud inside my head

Every thought is something I said

Or something I should've said instead

I'm fine, I swear, I'm not myself

I disappear in crowded rooms

I overthink the way I move

I'm screaming quiet, speaking mute

I'm fine, I swear, I'm not myself

If I leave early, they'll talk

If I stay, I'll suffocate

If I speak, I'll say too much

If I don't, I'll seem fake

Tell me, is it all in my head?

Or am I seeing this clear?

'Cause I feel like I'm standing alone

In a room full of people right here

It's too loud inside my head

But I'm learning it doesn't mean I'm dead

Just means I'm wired a little different

I'm fine… I'm still myself

I don't vanish, I just fade

I don't run, I hesitate

I'm not broken, I'm just afraid

I'm fine… I'm still myself

So if I leave without goodbye

Or go quiet mid-sentence

Just know I'm fighting battles

You can't see from the outside

I'm trying… I 

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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We were good in the beginning

Like most things usually are

Coffee on the counter

Your shoes by the door

Nothing felt like pressure

Nothing felt like fate

But love has a way of whispering

When it's already late

You were happy just believing

Every day would stay the same

I was seeing all the cracks

Thinking how it all would go

You called it growing comfortable

I felt us drifting off

Funny how the quietest truths

Are the ones you don't say out loud

We were both alive and dying

In a box we couldn't see

You were dreaming of forever

I was learning how to leave

Every future felt like truth

Every ending just as real

Love was living in between

Like that Schrodinger's Cat

I'd watch you laugh across the room

Like nothing here was wrong

While I was doing all I could

Just to keep us going on

You don't hurt someone by accident

You see it in their eyes

That staying is a slower kind

Of letting someone go

We were both alive and dying

Both still breathing, both unsure

You were sure this thing was working

I was sure it couldn't endure

I could see two different worlds

Lying on the same track

Both of them were real to me

Like that Schrödinger's Cat

I don't blame you for the loving

Or the way you held me close

But love that costs you everything

Ain't love you get to keep

So I opened up the silence

Let the moment choose its side

Some hearts live by holding on

Some survive by saying goodbye

Now the box is finally open

And the truth is standing still

You're hurting in the present tense

I'm healing against my will

Sadness turns to breathing room

When you finally face the fact

We were both alive and gone

Like that Schrödinger's Cat

Some loves don't die from ending

They die from hanging on

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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She's digging in her purse at the checkout stand

Coins on the counter, a list in her hand

Milk and bread, lets the eggs go back

Eyes on the total, doing the math

Behind her, someone sets a bottle down

Card hits the reader, green light, no sound

Thirty-five dollars, doesn't slow him down

Same little moment, different ground

Receipt prints, she folds it in half

Pushes the cart, doesn't look back

We're all breathing the same air tonight

Same space, different states of mind

Some are holding on, some letting go

Some got everything and still feel broke

It ain't fair, but it's all right here

In moments that come and disappear

Standing close, worlds out of sight

Breathing the same air tonight

TV's on low in a hospital room

Sun's dropping low behind the glass

Paper cup water, pills on a tray

Calendar marked a few weeks away

Phone lights up with a picture sent through

Tiny clothes in a soft shade of blue

He looks at it, then sets it down

Stares at the window, hands at his sides

Across town—

Phone in his hand, scrolling through

Pictures of water, white sand views

Ocean breeze and a five-star stay

Sighs at the screen, then looks away

We're all breathing the same air tonight

Same space, different states of mind

Some are holding on, some letting go

Some got everything and still feel broke

It ain't fair, but it's all right here

In moments that come and disappear

Standing close, worlds out of sight

Breathing the same air tonight

Big house, quiet, lights still on

Dishes in the sink, but no one home

Far away, in a dirt floor room

Bare feet dancing to a different tune

Kind hands reaching, just to feel known

Sharp ones taking what's not their own

Some get by, some take more than they need

Some fall behind chasing the lead

We're all breathing the same air tonight

Same space, different states of mind

Some are holding on, some letting go

Some got everything and still feel broke

It ain't fair, but it's all right here

In moments that come and disappear

Standing close, worlds out of sight

Breathing the same air tonight

Same air moving through you and me

Different roads… same need to be

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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You walked in like a hurricane

Then blamed the houses for the rain

Every mirror had to lie

If it didn’t like your side

You lit the fuse and called it fate

Then cursed the fire for the heat

Somehow every shattered thing

Was never yours to own

You never bent, you never broke

Just pointed where the blame would go

You want the kindness you never gave

You want the loyalty you couldn’t save

You want the world to kneel somehow

To a borrowed crown

You burn the bridge, then curse the fall

And still expect respect from all

The wreckage scattered on the ground

Around your borrowed crown

Every story had one hero

Funny how it was never me

You rewrote history in real time

Till the truth could barely breathe

Love was just something you spent

Never thinking what it cost

Then wondered why the vault ran dry

After everything it bought

You never saw the damage done

If you weren’t the bleeding one

You want the kindness you never gave

You want the loyalty you couldn’t save

You want the world to kneel somehow

To a borrowed crown

You burn the bridge, then curse the fall

And still expect respect from all

The wreckage scattered on the ground

Around your borrowed crown

(Instrumental Interlude - Guitar, Vox)

Respect is earned in quiet rooms

Not shouted from a throne

And love don’t grow where fear is sown

No matter what you call it

You called yourself a queen for years

But kingdoms need a heart

And your self righteous throne

Fell apart when I figured it out

You wanted kindness you never gave

You wanted loyalty you couldn’t save

You wanted me to live somehow

Beneath your borrowed crown

But I found peace beyond your walls

No guilt left when the empire falls

Just silence where the screams were loud

Around your borrowed crown

The crown was never gold

Just noise and nothing real

Mirror… mirror… on the wall…

We know how your kingdom fell…

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

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Black wings resting on a wire

Watching everything below

And a rabbit frozen in the grass

Listening while the shadows grow

Through tired eyes you start to see

What the careful crow already knows

Some truths only show themselves

When the storm begins to close

You showed up when the sky fell in

With careful words and a practiced grin

Said all the things a friend might say

While watching how the pieces lay

You leaned real close like you understood

Said you'd help me if you could

But somewhere in the things I found

Was a truth you couldn't hide

And some lessons once you see them

Are the kind you get to keep

Funny how the truth appears

When the lights go low and the road gets steep

Some people reach to pull you up

Some just watch to see how deep

Finders keepers, lesson learned

Some bridges break, some bridges burn

You showed me more than you meant to show

When the storm rolled in and the truth got known

Finders keepers, I can see

Exactly who you turned out to be

You thought the fall belonged to me

But the wisdom's mine to keep

The crow just waits to see the break

The rabbit learns which path to take

Both of them survive the storm

Watching how the world performs

And the ones who never face the fire

Never learn what truth requires

So when their quiet walls collapse

They won't know how to stand

Finders keepers, lesson learned

Some bridges break, some bridges burn

You showed me more than you meant to show

When the storm rolled in and the truth got known

Finders keepers, now I see

The strength you never wished for me

You thought the fall belonged to me

But the wisdom's mine to keep

Through tired eyes I finally see

That crow was watching just like me

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

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You say he's different in the quiet

When the room goes still

You say he's learning how to listen

You say he's learning how to feel

But I've watched him chase the thunder

Just to hear his own name ring

Some people don't want shelter

They just like the lightning

And I don't say much anymore

I've said my piece before

You don't ask a dragon to blow out a candle

You don't ask the tide not to rise

You don't hand a match to a heart that loves to gamble

Then call it surprise

A leopard don't change its pattern

Just because you believe it should

Some fires aren't accidents

They burn because they can

I stepped back without a scene

Didn't slam a single door

Watched it all go up in smoke

I'd seen that end before

You called it love, I called it pattern

We both stood where we stood

You said this time would be different

I hoped for you it would

Hope don't fix a thing

It just sounds good

I don't need to say "I told you"

The silence does enough

Some lessons write themselves

In ash and what's left behind

And when the heat gets closer

And the air is hard to breathe

You'll remember this quiet room

And what I couldn't make you see

You don't ask a dragon to blow out a candle

You don't ask the tide not to rise

You don't ask the rain to stop

If you wrap your arms around something wild

Don't be surprised by the bruise

Some people love the burning

More than they love the light

I'm watching from the outside now

And I sleep alright at night

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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The radio's just static now

But I don't turn it off

Streetlights flicker, losing power

Like they're tired of holding on

There's a siren somewhere fading

But it don't feel like it's for us

People running past the windows

Like they're late for something gone

I stopped trying to make sense of it

The night just rolls along

And I don't need to know what's coming

I don't need to understand

You're right here beside me

Passenger side of the end

World's burning out in the distance

But you reach for my hand

We don't talk about forever

We don't make those kinds of plans

We just keep driving through the dark

Doing the best that we can

Billboards torn and hanging sideways

Like they gave up on the lie

Every road we used to count on

Leads to somewhere we passed by

I see fire on the horizon

Reflected in your eyes

But you don't look away from it

And neither do I

If this all falls down around us

At least we know we tried

You're right here beside me

Passenger side of the end

World's falling out of the sky now

But you're still my constant

We don't promise there's a morning

We don't need to pretend

We just keep moving through the dark

Like we always did

If it all goes quiet

If the lights don't come back on

If the map just disappears

And every road is gone

Would you still sit beside me

Like there's nowhere else to be

Like the world can do its worst

And still not take you from me

You're right here beside me

Passenger side of the end

Everything breaking around us

But you don't let it in

We don't need a happy ending

We don't need to pretend

If it all goes dark tomorrow

I'd still choose this again

The radio's still static

But I hear you breathing slow

And if this is how it finishes…

I'm not letting go

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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She said, "I don't feel beautiful today"

Standing in the mirror, picking things away

Talking about lines no one else can see

Like they matter more than how she is with me

I said, "You're being harder on yourself than anyone else

You're seeing things nobody sees but you

You're staring too long at a piece of glass

It isn't in the surface or the skin

It's in the way you hold the world you're in

Beauty's in the eyes that look for good

Even when the day is not what it should

In the hands that stay when things fall apart

In the steady rhythm of a patient heart

It's not in the spotlight or how it appears

Or chasing approval year after year

It's in the grace you give, the truth you live

It's everywhere

Depends on where you look

I've seen it in a sunrise over open stone

In a melody that makes you feel less alone

In a baby's voice finding something new

In the quiet between what is said and true

In dogs running circles for no reason at all

In someone who listens and lets you talk

In a person who sees every fault you own

And still decides they are not alone

It isn't in the noise people repeat

It's in the space between

Beauty's in the eyes that look for good

Even when the day is not what it should

In the hands that stay when things fall apart

In the steady rhythm of a patient heart

It's not in the spotlight or how it appears

Or chasing approval year after year

It's in the grace you give, the truth you live

It's everywhere

Depends on where you look

We get used to what we see every day

Start believing that's the only way

Call it normal, call it right

Never question what's in plain sight

But beauty isn't loud, it never needs to prove

It shows up in the smallest things we choose

In staying present when it would be easier to leave

In seeing someone fully and letting them be

The ones who know you when you're not your best

And do not turn away

Beauty's in the eyes that look for good

Even when the day is not what it should

In the love that holds when things come apart

In the steady rhythm of a patient heart

It's not perfection, it's not control

It's not a number you assign a soul

It's in the way you give, the way you forgive

It's everywhere

Yeah, it's everywhere

You just have to choose to look

She laughed a little, let the silence sit

Turned from the mirror… and walked past it

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

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 There's a quiet in the room I've never known

Like the world just took a breath and let me go

Machines don't argue, they just fade to black

And somewhere deep inside… I don't want it back

You held your ground with a steady hand

Made peace with things we don't understand

You never said it, but I could see

You were teaching life by how you leave

No fear left in your eyes

Just truth you didn't have to hide

And it's funny what survives when everything else goes

Not the things we chased, just the love we chose

All the noise burns out, all the pride lets go

In the end, it's what we gave that shows

Deadlines, deals, and the miles we ran

Tryin' to be more than a mortal man

But none of that follows where I'm goin' now

Just faces I loved and the truth laid bare

And it's funny what survives when everything else goes

Not the things we chased, just the love we chose

All the noise burns out, all the pride lets go

In the end, it's what we gave that shows

Small hands reaching for something bright

Didn't know wrong, didn't know right

Just breath and wonder, open sky

Before we ever learned we die

And it's funny what survives when everything else goes

Not the things we chased, just the love we chose

All the noise burns out, all the pride lets go

In the end, it's what we gave that shows

Now it's quiet… but it's not the end

Feels like I'm beginning again

If this is the light they talk about

It's not a flame… it's a light on a path to a new day

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

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Woke up walking on a blank white floor

No edges, no horizon anymore

Sky was there but barely blue

Like it didn't know what it wanted to do

No sound but the weight of breath

No past behind, no hint of what's next

Every step felt like the same

But something in me let it all go still

Started thinking maybe this is it

Nothing to lose, nothing to fix

All the ghosts I used to fight

Didn't feel like something I had to fight

Then a voice I almost knew

Said, "You don't need a different view"

And for once I didn't move

I just stood there with the truth

I've been chasing lines that never bend

Trying to find a break in the end

It's white without end, just salt and sky

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

And the weight I carried all my life

Doesn't feel so heavy tonight

No answers came, no grand design

Just a quiet truth I couldn't fight

And for the first time I could see it clear

Through tired eyes

Felt the cold turn into calm

Like letting go without giving up

Not forgiveness, not regret

Just everything I hadn't named yet

I thought of all the ones I lost

Every bridge I couldn't cross

And somehow standing all alone

Didn't feel I was on my own

It's white without end, just salt and sky

No more asking the reason why

All the hurt and all the grace

Finally share the same space

No finish line, no sudden light

Just enough truth to get through the night

And for the first time I can see it clear

Through tired eyes

Woke up in the dark, you next to me

Same old world, same gravity

But something quiet stayed instead…

From the white

…through tired eyes

Lyrics and Music: © 2026. Kevin Dunlap. All Rights Reserved.

Published by Kevin's Songs (ASCAP)

Writer IPI: QZWFX2617901

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