bleached - demo

bleached the first offering from ROADRUNNER I wrote bleached in the middle of a long identity unraveling. It’s about the impulse to start over, to burn down who you were, change your hair, change your name, and hope the mirror finally recognizes you back. It’s about body dysmorphia, but also about the deeper ache underneath: the belief that transformation has to come through destruction. In the world of ROADRUNNER, bleached is the false rebirth, the moments before acceptance, when you’re still trying to scrub the stain instead of understanding what it’s made of. It’s a song about chasing purity and finding ghosts instead. I wanted it to sound like standing under fluorescent light at 2am, buzzed on reinvention and self-disgust, realizing you can’t bleach your way clean. (from the album ROADRUNNER, a spiritual pop experimental collection about ego death, emotional reckoning, and the slow sprint toward self-acceptance. Coming in full soon.)