There's a lie that I told to you That now I can't tell the truth And it ate me inside, so one soft drunken night I slept with a man you knew Then in the morning I walked home alone And the businessmen saw my bones With my skirt in their eyes, they remembered the nights When they were that man you knew You told me once You were ha » Continue Reading
At night on the rooftop I untie my hair And watch from my plastic chair As my dark hair unleashes the night The scent of flowers Still in bloom from morning shower And I say your name In hopes you'll hear it in the stars And carry me out Carry me out I drive when it rains At nigh » Continue Reading
I think my brain is rotting in places I think my heart is ready to die I think my body is falling in pieces I think my blood is passing me by Honey, what'd you take, what'd you take? Honey, look at me Tell me, what you took, what'd you take? Honey, what'd you take, what'd you take? Honey, look at me Tell me, what you took, what'd » Continue Reading
Somebody kiss me, I'm going crazy I'm walking 'round the house naked Silver in the night Singing: Do-do, do-do Out there I'm a sharp knife Are you that a blue light? Are you that a blue light? Are you that a blue light? Are you? Do-do, do-do. -Blue Light, Mitski. » Continue Reading
As you look to the stars, oh, you could find Illuminated in scars, a face aligned I am saving the space between the breaths I am making your place between the breaths As the flame is to snow, first love to last I will laugh in your face like shattered glass I'm saving the space between the breaths We are saving a place between the breaths Between the breaths B » Continue Reading
I can still smell the fire Even though it's long died out The smoke still hang in my hair And on some quiet evenings, it burns my eyes So darling, play your violin I know it's what you live for Darling, play your violin We will manage somehow I once lived in the sea Bring me to your ear, you can hear The tide where I use » Continue Reading
I'm all used up, pretty boy Over and over again, my nail colors are wearing off See my hands, pretty boy What do they tell you? 'Cause I've looked down at them, not knowing why And after everything's done and I'm all undone You can hear my high heels walking on Clickety-clacking through the night I'm carrying my bag of bones Fluorescent store lights, you shine t » Continue Reading
I am hungry I have been hungry I was born hungry What do I need? I am something I was born something What could I be? There is a light that I can see But only, it seems, when there's darkness in me There is a dream that I sometimes see That only appears in the dark of sleep I am waiting I have been wa » Continue Reading
What do you do with a loving feeling If the loving feeling makes you all alone? What do you do with a loving feeling If they only love you when you're all alone? Holding hands under the table Meeting up in your bedroom Making love to other people Telling each other it's all good Kisses like pink cotton candy Talking to everyone but me I'm staying up l » Continue Reading
A lake with no fish Is the heart of a horse Named Cold Air Who, when young Would run like a storm They would say, ooh I thought I'd traveled a long way But I had a circled The same old sin. -A Horse Named Cold Air, Mitski. » Continue Reading
Today I will wear my white buttom down I'm tired of wanting more For you have a way of promising things And I've been a forest fire I am a forest fire And I am the fire and I am the forest And I am a witness watching it I stand in a valley watching it And you are not there at all So today I will wear my white buttom-down I can at least be neat » Continue Reading
My baby, my baby You're my baby, say it to me Baby, my baby Tell your baby, that I'm your baby I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I'll be there on their side I'm losing by their side Will you let me, baby Lose on lo » Continue Reading