Performed by Emily Stellar with Christopher Sopher
℗ CosmicCrusaderMusic.com (BMI/ASCAP)
©Written, Produced, and Published by Christopher Sopher Media, LLC
Phoenix, Arizona
About Slept in Today
“Depression steals the simple verbs.”
Slept in Today sits at the end of Hotel Déjà Vu like the final room after a long night of drifting through thought, memory, dream, and emotional static. The song speaks directly to depression, exhaustion, and the quiet weight of ordinary life when even simple actions begin to feel impossible. Questions arrive one after another: did you fix the car, call your mom, save yourself, change your life, love someone, pay the rent, fight the wolves? The answer keeps returning the way depression often does, blunt and without performance: No… I slept in today.
"Did you fight the wolves?"
Beneath that repetition is a wider tension between inner collapse and a world demanding constant movement, constant output, constant visibility. Even the modern pressure to market art becomes part of the lyric, where speed, scrolling, and algorithms collide with slower human thought. In that sense, the song does not just describe withdrawal, it pushes back against a culture that rarely allows people to stop long enough to feel what they are carrying. The final answer is not heroic, not dramatic, just human: sometimes the day wins, and sleep becomes the only room left.
"Dog with a joint in a five second loop.
Not even funny just modern soup."
Did you save yourself
No I slept in today
Did you love someone
No I slept in today
Did you bury the dog did you face that day
Yeah I slept in today
I slept in today
Everything costs double since the fever year
Groceries got muscles learned how to sneer
Good people calling themselves stupid and small
Talented hands feeling useless and raw
She's a piano teacher with quiet keys
Says she's a failure on bended knees
I don't know cars I just sign and pray
Convertible dreams in a plastic tray
I see the future like a tow truck light
Every problem wearing my name at night
I don't wanna be the guy to blame
For a car that turns into a lifetime rain
Did you change your life
No I slept in today
Did you chase that dream
No I slept in today
Did you fight the wolves pay the rent be brave
No I slept in today
I slept in today
Uber math feels like a crooked priest
Fifty to the airport two fifty to grief
Not cause you're sick just cause you need
Desperation grows expensive weeds
Take me to Burger King walk the rest
Save a grand on a medical test
Same damn car same damn air
But fear got a price tag hanging there
Dogs die people die clocks get teeth
Families turn into missing wreaths
Life ain't deep it's just loud and mean
And we all pretend we're still clean
Did you fix the car
No I slept in today
Did you call your mom
No I slept in today
Did you learn to live did you learn to pray
No I slept in today
I slept in today
Depression steals the simple verbs
Turns whole plans into nerves
Bed feels like a quiet cave
Braver than the day I face
What do you do when the map goes gray
When the morning weighs a Chevrolet
Not heroic not parade
You slept in today
They say market yourself dance at noon
Feed the algorithm like a cartoon
World scrolling faster than a human can bleed
I'm planting trees while they're growing speed
Dog with a joint in a five second loop
Not even funny just modern soup
Everyone hunting the next quick high
Thumbs like birds too scared to fly
Maybe the world wants something real
But real don't spin like a carnival wheel
I'm yelling truth through a paper cup
While the feed says hurry the hell up
Did you save yourself
No I slept in today
Did you love someone
No I slept in today
Did you bury the dog did you face that day
Yeah I slept in today
I slept in today
Life's heavy mean and badly made
Hope's on backorder bills get paid
Whole damn planet wants a résumé
And I slept in today
I don't even know if I like this song
I'd rather sleep in anyway
Tomorrow's another day
This one got away
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