mitski songs
at night on the roof top 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
carry me out
there's a lie that i hold 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 and in the morning, i walked home alone and the businessman saw my bones with my skirt in their eyes, they remembered the night
circle
mom, i'm tired can i seep in your house tonight? mom, is it alright if i stay for a year or two? mom, i'll be quiet it would be just to sleep at night and i'll leave once i figure out how to pay for my own life too
class of 2013
come into the water do you wanna be my baby? are you waiting to touch me? you look so good, but i keep my hands 'til you come into the water
come into the water
down empty streets sniffing glue me and you blank open eyes watch the moonflower bloom it's been a long hard twenty-year summer vacation all these twenty years trying to fill the void
crack baby
oh, one, two honey what you take? 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's you take? what'd you take?
brand new city
today i will wear my white button-down i'm tired of wanting more i think i'm finally worn 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
a burning hill
a lake with no fish is the heart of a horse named cold air
a horse named cold air
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?
a loving feeling
you're growing tired of me you love me so hard and i still can't sleep you're growing tired of me and all the things i don't talk about sorry, i don't want your touch it's not that i don't want you sorry, i can't take your touch
a pearl
i am hungry i have been hungry i was born hungry what do i need i am something i have been something i was born something what could i be? there is a light i can see but only, it seems, when there's darkness in me
abbey
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 clickity-clacking through the night
bag of bones
i can still smell the fire though i know it's long died out the smoke still hangs in my hair and on some quiet evenings, it burn my eyes so darling, play your violin i know it's what you life for
because dreaming costs money, my dear
somebody kiss me, i'm going crazy i'm walking 'round the house naked silver in the night singing, "do-do, do-do"
blue light
dan had very long limbs from leading day to day hanging onto a cliff that stretched him everyday and when she'd ask to hold hands he would smile and let one of his hands go his whole life in one hand his whole life
dan the dancer
there is a door to me i've never seen it something i get closer to it but i've never found it
door
i will retire to the salton sea at the age of 23 for i'm starting to learn i may never be free but though i may never be free **** you and your money i'm tired of your money
drunk walk home
you like control, well i do too take off my clothes and watch me move you can come closer, i'll let you hurt me how you choose
eric
everyone, all of them everyone said, "don't go that way" so, of course, to that i said "i think i'll go that way"
everyone
one morning this sadness will fossilize and i will forget how to cry i'll keep going to work and he won't see a change save perhaps a slight gray in my eye i will go jogging routinely calmly and rhythmically run and when i find that a knife sticking out of my side i'll pull it out without questioning why
fireworks
the black hole of the window where you sleep the night breeze carries something sweet a peach tree wild women don't get the blues but i find that late, i've been crying like a tall child so please, hurry leave, me i can't breath please don't say you love me 胸がはち切れそうで
first love/late spring
i don't know what to do without you i don't know where to put my hands i've been trying to lay my head down but i'm writing this at 3 am i don't need the world to see that i've been the best i can be, but i don't think i could stand to be where you don't see me
francis forever
you're my number one you're the one i want and you've turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come you're my number one you're the one i want and i've turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come
geyser
there's nobody better than you it took my a while 'til i knew but you know from the start it was us, didn't you? it just took me a while 'til i know now i lay as i study a blank wall would you spare my your voice if i call? 'cause you waiting and watered my heart 'til it grew
goodbye, my danish sweetheart
happy came to visit me, he bought cookies on the way i poured him tea and he told me it'll all be okay well i told him i'd do anything to have him stay with me so he laid me down, and i felt Happy come inside of me he laid me down, and i felt happy
happy
heat lightning running outside the window i've laid awake since one and now it's four o'clock
heat lightning
i'll live in the bathtub it's cool and clean it's smooth and steady it's all that i need i broke our belongings they're all on the floor the room is now empty nothing left to throw
humpty
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'll 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
i bet on losing dogs
i don't smoke except for when i'm missing you to remember your mouth, how it tasted true and i don't smoke except for after i've held you, baby being with you makes the flame burn good
i don't smoke
i guess, i guess i guess this is the end i'll have to learn to be somebody else
i guess
i want you i hold on card that i can't use but i want you
i want you
i will take good care of you i will take good care of you everything you feel is good if you would only let you i will wash your hair at night and dry it off with care i will see your body bare and still i will live here
i will
it's a windy afternoon can't afford to buy my food or the drive i need to go further then they said i'd go he only loves me when there's a means to an end oh, i miss when we first met he didn't know me yet so take me out, baby makes no difference where we'll be as long as we're out in the sun take me out baby
jobless monday
all of this turbulence wasn't forecasted apologies from the intercom and i am relieved that i'd left my room tidy they'll think of me kindly when they come for my things
last words of a shooting star
i'm beautiful i know 'cause it's the season but what am i to do with all this beauty biology, i am an organism i'm chemical, that's all, that is all
liquid smooth
i call you, to see you again so i can win, and this can finally end spend an hour doing my makeup to prove something
lonesome love
if i keep myself at home i won't make the same mistake that i made for fifteen years i could be a new girl i will be a new girl
love me more
i steal a few breaths from the world for a minute and then i'll be nothing forever and all of my memories and all of the things i have seen will be gone with my eyes, with my body, with me
me and my husband
i'm not doing anything i'm not doing anything my body's made of crushed little stars and i'm not doing anything i wanna see the whole world i wanna see the whole world i don't know how i'm gonna pay rent i wanna see the whole world
my body's made of crushed little stars
my god, i'm so lonely so i open the window to hear sounds of people to hear sounds of people
nobody
we nearly drowned for such a silly thing someone who loves me now better than you and that pretty friend is finally yours, and i'll be around on sunday, if you'll meet me at blue diner i'll take coffee and talk about nothing, baby at blue diner, i'll take anything you want to give me, baby
old friend
in the rear view mirror i saw the setting sun on your neck and felt the taste of you bubble up inside me but with everybody watching us our every move we do have reputations will you keep it secret won't let them have it
once more to see you
treasure hunter, you are dead, the light of the world is fading you cannot see the other end, your body's lost all feeling those creatures of working mind, don't fear them or their hunger forgive the sea, follow the tide with the monsters on your shouleder
pearl diver
i glow pink in the night in my room i've been blossoming alone over you and i hear my heart breaking tonight i hear my heart breaking tonight
pink in the night
real men don't need other people and real men suck it in real men don't flinch or bleed in public oh, i think i'm a real man
real men
i gave too much of my heart tonight can you come to where i'm staying and make some extra love? that i can save 'til tomorrow's show
remember my name
it feels so good, it feels so good and right outside the door, nobody knows they're right outside the door and they don't know how it feels so good, it feels so good
shame
well, i went through my list of friends and found I had no one to tell of this overwhelming clean feeling, strange serenity when i saw the girl looked just like me and it broke my heart the lengths you went to hold me to get to have me
should've been me
your room was square i noticed from there in your bed, as you slept and i held my breath everything had it's own place and i wondered what space would i take in the order you kept
square
fury, pure and silver you grip it tight inside like a knife, it glints in your eye it's why I've arrived, your sex god here to take you where you need to go, to where the dark remembers you
stay soft
i love everbody because i love you when you stood up walked away, barefoot and the grass where you lay left a bed in your shape i looked it and i ached i love everybody because i love i don't need the city, and i don't need proof all i need darling is a life in your shape i picture it, soft and i ache
strawberry blonde
it's beautiful out today i wish you could take me upstate to the little place you would tell me about when you'd sense i want to escape texas is a landlocked state it's a little bit far away
texas reznikoff
we fought again i ran out the apartment you say you love me i believe you do but I walk down and up and down and up and down this street 'cause you just don't like me not like you used to
that's our lamp
if you would just make one mistake what a relief that would be but i think for as long as we're together i'll be the only heartbreaker
the only heartbreaker
there's nothin' left for you nothin' in this room try and go outside nothin' waits for you
there's nothing left here for you
glory, glory, glory to the night that shows me what i am as i go to the party on my knees saying take it oh please
thursday girl
there's a party and we're all going and we're all growing up somebody's driving and he will be drinking and no one's going back 'cause we've tried hungry, and we've tried full and nothing seems enough so tonight, tonight the boys are gonna go for more, more, more
townie
does it smell like a school gymnasium in here? it's funny how they're all the same it's funny how you always remember and we've both done it all a hundred times before it's funny how I still forgot
two slow dancers
let's step carefully into the dark once we're in, i'll remember my way around who will I be tonight? who will i become tonight? i'll show you who my sweetheart's never met wet teeth, shining eyes, glimmering by a fire
valentine, texas
toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart baby, bang it up inside i'm not wearing my usual lipstick i thought maybe we would kiss tonight baby will you kiss me already and toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart?
washing machine heart
i know that i ended it, but why won't you chase after me? You know me better than i do so why didn't you stop me?
why didn't you stop me?
you're home, you're home you're home to me so leave me, leave me leave me a map i'm here at my cliff looking down i cannot bear you a son, but i will try for if i am not yours, what am i?
wife
i cry at the start of every movie i guess 'cause i wish i was making things too but i'm working for the knife
working for the knife
if i could, i'd be your little spoon and kiss your fingers forevermore but, big spoon, you have so much to do and i have nothing ahead of me
your best american girl