Loui Daniels - Expectations (Tiny Desk Contest 2025)

(Expectations)
Written by Loui Daniels
Why do I have to become someone I’m not
in a world that’s full of flawed predictions? Can I tell you how so stressed that I have been to live?
Do I have to know the things that you had known? Has time been moving far too quickly? Can you tell me what day it is today? Okay.
I’ve been working all day.
And I haven’t got sleep.
The days just go by.
And it’s already late.
I just wanna go home
and just play my guitar
and sing about things
that’s been bugging my mind.
Life’s so hard. Life’s so hard.
How come I have to amount what’s beyond me?
I don’t need to hear your expectations.
Am I always gonna be so looked upon like I’m lost?
Why do people look at me like I’m so dumb?
Do I have to start a conversation?
At a table, do I have to be the one to impress?
I may be a guest.
But I don’t know so much.
Though I wish I could be the one with it all.
Why am I so damn lame?
My ambition is low
And I’m always so fazed.
And I wanna get high all the time… So high all the time…
High all the time...
So high all the time…
I can’t have so much of
what you want from me.
I can’t handle all these expectations...