Released: September 6, 2012

Songwriter: Tinashe

Producer: B. Hendrixx

[Chorus]
We are in a reverie
And everything you thought you know
Isn't what it seems
Only truth, truth will set you free
And I will never lie to you
So listen close to me

[Verse 1]
We've been eating these lies
And they've been feeding us all lies
What happened to our blue skies?
Yo, they be getting us young, learn to love institution
This new world has begun

[Verse 2]
And we spend every day
Worrying 'bout the same shit, how am I gonna make it?
Every day reading from the same script
People lyin' down, we can change it, face it
This ain't where we're supposed to be, this is reverie

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Hear my heartbeat, feel I'm real and
Sweetly singing, feed me diamonds
Truth is not the same as silence
Follow me towards these horizons

[Chorus]

Tinashe

Tinashe Jorgenson Kachingwe, known mononymously as Tinashe, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, and former model born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Born on February 6, 1993, her rise to fame began with her acting on shows such as Two and a Half Men. Initially making her debut in the music industry via the short-lived girl group The Stunners—which also featured Hayley Kiyoko—she garnered attention from online music blogs with her 2012 mixtape, In Case We Die. Signing with RCA Records shortly after, she released two further mixtapes later that year and in 2013: Reverie and Black Water respectively. “2 On” was released in January 2014 as the lead single from her debut album, Aquarius, and remains her biggest solo single to date. Released in October that year, the album was praised by critics for its merging of old-school R&B sounds and fresh 2010s trends. The follow-up was subjected to much-criticised although “Player” was billed as the collection’s lead single as early as October 2015, songs released from the project failed to reach the label’s expectations, resulting in the release of an album’s worth of outtakes from the album, Nightride, in November 2016. Joyride was finally released on April 13: it features the singles “No Drama”, “Faded Love” and “Me So Bad”.

On February 18, 2019, Tinashe parted ways with her longtime record label RCA. By November that year, she inked a new management deal with Roc Nation and self-released Songs for You, her fourth studio album.