in honor of mitski’s tour tickets being on sale and my birthday im writing my favorite mitski lyrics:
(as of today goodbye my danish sweetheart, square, humpty, two slow dancers, and i bet on losing dogs have made me cry the most)
goodbye my danish sweetheart
“and i don’t mean to make your heart blue but could we be what we’re meant to be? i’m just about to beg you, please and then, when you tell your friends you can tell them what you saw in me and not the way I used to be”
i will
“i will wash your hair at night and dry it off with care”
square
“but i was still waiting for something to earn”
“what is that quiet of snow in the night? the dark rings with white noise as you stand and drown, maybe it’s all of these snowflakes, screaming a choir of mute as they brace for the ground”
eric
“blue light, dark room, the white of your teeth as you smile at my trembling shoulders but your skin, did you notice your skin it cries a soft weep like mine”
a burning hill
“i am a forest fire and i am the fire and i am the forest and i am a witness watching it”
townie
“and I want a love that falls as fast as a body from the balcony, and i want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground”
“so tonight, tonight the boys are gonna go for more more more”
“i am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be”
pink in the night
“and i know i’ve kissed you before, but i didn’t do it right can i try again, try again, try again”
real men
“and real men don’t eat, ‘cause they’re above that, damn it”
humpty
“all the eggshells are on the ground and i try, i’m trying to pick them up but they crack and crumble, it’s much too much too frail for me to touch”
i bet on losing dogs
“baby, my baby tell your baby that i’m your baby”
two slow dancers
“it would be a hundred times easier if we were young again but as it is and it is to think that we could stay the same”
brand new city
“and if i gave up on being pretty i wouldn’t know how to be alive, i should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die”
class of 2013
“and i’ll leave once i figure out how to pay for my own life too”
“mom, am I still young? can i dream for a few months more?”
first love/late spring
“yet now i find i’ve grown into a tall child”
liquid smooth
“how i feel this river rushing through my veins with nowhere else to go, it circles 'round”
fireworks
“and then one warm summer night i’ll hear fireworks outside and i’ll listen to the memories as they cry, cry, cry”
your best american girl
“you’re the sun, you’ve never seen the night”
“you’re all i ever wanted i think i’ll regret this”
i want you
“you’re coming back and it’s the end of the world we’re starting over and I love you, darling”
last words of a shooting star
“and you’d say you love me and look in my eyes but i know through mine you were looking in yours"
shame
*insert anxiety inducing violin part*
camscendants
