Kill My Darlings Lyrics

Don't track anything

Keep it

Atoms settling

That's all it has to be

Catch and release, but don't share the day

You're in trouble if you stay

Add to the voices

Of who is making your choices

Shakespeare, forceful

I wrote you a play

Don't be ungrateful for a role that you hate

Slippery, screaming, now they're cutting me

And where are they now

That they got what they claimed

That they wanted from my life

Gutted like a red herring

Garden grow, here's that posy you asked for

Where are you now that it has bloomed

Another seed for you to plant, never water

Thirsting for stable following

Of the rules you play by everyday

Farming in fertile dirt

Happy being undisturbed

No one believes you

No one believes you

Run little piggy run from the cattle

Favor the snake but not the rattle

Pitch the preciousness of life

But where is the follow-through

My personhood is an obstacle

To your goals for my body

A neighborhood to bulldoze

A transplant community to squash

You kill my darlings

All the time

Isn't that supposed to scare me

Isn't that the whole idea

You kill my darlings

It's not for everyone

But it might be for you

Good luck