Darlings Lyrics

Was it easy to leave it all behind

Still be singing white noise and acknowledging alliterative lines

Still from Sam to Nowhere to the bottom of infinity decline

Bled between the black holes and the footholds on the ridges of your spine

Your body twisting symbols in the fog

Ink blots on the surface of my mind de-shaping into smog

Dispersing in the noise

But I am tired of gimmicks and of riffs

Tired of the metaphors, the pitfalls and the cliffs

Tired of the shackles of the things that I couldn't do

Putting on a brave face hoping to mirror onto you

So let's go hang out with our parasocial friends

Let's rot another hundred years til the end

And let's repeat patterns set out when we were young

Dandelions for hands and daisies in your hair

Both now growing in your lungs

And the metronome click is a migraine in my brain

While I cram together jigsaws twisting facets of that pain

But you have to kill your darlings or they'll rise up and revolt

If you have to self-destruct or self-distract

You gotta know it's not your fault

How many times will I say

Everything you need is within you

Everything you want can become you

So overrule dystopia

Now bored by your dysphoria

Caught broken free of fishnets

In an ocean of regrets

But be savvy and make strategies

Be hopeful and make plans

Til fate sweeps down the high street

And rips fortune from your hands

Please remember I'll be there for you

And please remember that the fight is worth fighting

Build towers for lightning

Escape from the moorland

The world is in your hands