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The story of

Glass Castles

single / 2026-06-11
synth rock / synths, drums, vocals

Have you ever slept on broken bottles?

A sharp picture of that moment when you realize you won’t be able to fix it. The life you were taught to picture will not happen, and it is breaking… you don’t fit into it anymore… maybe you never did. You run. It hurts.

A bright, colorful nightmare that becomes real, because it’s just a mirror of what you feel. Poetry that cuts in the most beautiful way, and you feel it almost, or perhaps even more, than you’d feel the shards in your skin.

"She is absolutely obsessed with it. […] The lyrics are brutal, yet very poetic. ~ Vii"

If you could pour Tilly into a glass, this song might be exactly how she’d taste. And that’s both a really great and a really harsh thing to say. If life feels comfortable for you, you might not be able to relate. If you know how hard it can be, you may or may not fully understand the lyrics, but you will still see what she meant. Come rush into a fever dream turned bitter, where the bitterness is so wonderfully familiar it takes your words away.

Artist&lyrics: &Tilly
Writers&Music: &Tilly & Yan Hurd
Music Producer: Yan Hurd
Video: &Tilly
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& lyrics

To tell a hope aloud
 A truth we’d want but isn’t 
 Other needs not nurtured, all drizzled 
 Finally get warm
 With others waking up
  
A cloudy castle
 It sweetly chimes and hustles,
 Comes to life, with all minds unpuzzled
 If you’re cold
 Just wait, they’re plating up
  
Have you known
 A life so fragile, so unsure
 Then the realizing it’s not true
 Then the breaking into thousands of pieces
  
And the glass
 That I wished would cut my throat
 May have gently detached my tongue
 Have you ever slept on broken bottles?
  
Now, maybe never
 As loud as others seem all clever
 Tell them all, the glassy eyes will find her
 Say it all
 If not even to fight 
  
To tell a hope aloud
 The world stops, becomes louder
 The world stops just to show that you’ve been under
 Getting there
 To never finish right
  
Castle of glass
 A tale so old you want to puke
 While still hoping there’s a tiny place for you
 Then the breaking into thousands of pieces
  
And they all
 Looking back at the empty space
 Waiting for the you that wasn’t made
 Have you ever slept on broken bottles?
  
Have you ever wished there would be others?
 Have you ever wished…
 Have you ever slept on broken bottles?
 Have you ever slept…
  
Have you known
 A life so fragile, so unsure
 Then the realizing it’s not true
 Then the breaking into thousands of pieces
  
And the glass
 That I wished would cut my throat
 May have gently detached my tongue
 Have you ever slept on broken bottles?
  
Have you known
 A life so fragile, so unsure
 Then the realizing it’s not true
 Then the breaking into thousands of pieces
  
And they all
 Looking back at the empty space
 Waiting for the you that wasn’t made
 Have you ever slept on broken bottles? 
  
Have you ever slept…

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