Circle

Track 8 on Retired from Sad, New Career in Business

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Aug. 1, 20131 viewer57.4K views

Circle Lyrics

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

And 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 happy to have me
But I never gave me away

There's the lie that I told to you

I would give you my heart, I think
But it's up in a branch of a tree
It was only to tease when he climbed up the tree
Put my heart where I couldn't reach

I didn't mind, I adored him, so
We forgot, and we left for home
And that was so long ago, now the tree it has grown

And nobody knows my lover is buried underground
Nobody knows my lover is buried underground
Nobody knows my lover is buried underground

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This song is the personification of commitment issues!
Mitski says she can’t tell this love interest the truth (things about herself). Her inability to share bothered her so much, it pushed her to sleep with someone else, which is a common self-destructive tactic. It seems that the man is comfortable enough to call them an item, but Mitski has not come around to accept any labels. She would like to give him her heart, but she has it blockaded. And now that he’s gone, the failure to commence with anybody has only worsened.