 Genius Meanings
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Mitski – My Love Mine All Mine
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In “My Love Mine All Mine,” Mitski recognizes the beauty of her love and asks the Moon to capture it, for it to shine down and preserve even after her passing. It was the third
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Mitski – I Bet on Losing Dogs
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[Verse] / My baby, my baby (Ooh-oh) / You're my baby, say it to me (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh) / Baby, my baby (Ooh, ooh-oh) / Tell your baby that I'm your baby (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh) / [Chorus
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Mitski – Me and My Husband
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“Me and My Husband” is the seventh track of Mitski’s fifth studio album Be The Cowboy released in August 2018.
Like earlier tracks on the album such as ‘Nobody’, ‘Me and My Husband
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Mitski – Nobody
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Mitski’s ninth track off her 2018 album Be the Cowboy, “Nobody” was released as a single on June 26.
The song touches on themes of alienation and estrangement, but over a disco-
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Mitski – Your Best American Girl
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“Your Best American Girl” is the lead single on Mitski’s 4th album, Puberty 2. The song represents the turmoil that one feels when they experience a relationship that brings them
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Mitski – A Pearl
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[Verse] / 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 / [Refrain] / Sorry, I don't
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Mitski – First Love / Late Spring
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The title “First Love/Late Spring” is a juxtaposition, mirroring the turmoil of the song’s themes of restlessness and unease. “First love” is a common theme in music, usually
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Mitski – Liquid Smooth
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus
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Mitski – Should've Been Me
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“Should’ve Been Me” is the ninth song from Mitski’s sixth album, Laurel Hell.
The song describes one of Mitski’s relationships and the isolation she felt as a consequence of poor
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Mitski – Abbey
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[Verse 1] / 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? / [Chorus 1
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Mitski – I Don't Smoke
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This song illustrates the parallels between the toxic and addictive habit of smoking with a toxic and addictive relationship.
She is completely aware of how unhealthy this person
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Mitski – Brand New City
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[Intro] / One, two / Honey, what'd you take? / [Verse 1] / 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
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Mitski – Crack Baby
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In a press release, through her label Dead Oceans, Mitski explained that the theme in her record, Puberty 2, and therefore this song, is that:
Happiness fucks you. Happiness is up
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Mitski – Working for the Knife
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The lead single from her sixth album Laurel Hell, “Working for the Knife” sees Mitski singing with her characteristically expressive voice about characteristically cynical subjects
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Mitski – Shame
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[Verse] / 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
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Mitski – Washing Machine Heart
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“Washing Machine Heart”, the twelfth track off Be the Cowboy, is sonically upbeat, but lyrically explores the “manic” nature of Mitski’s protagonist, who, in her words:
…is a
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Mitski – I Want You
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[Verse 1] / I want you / I hold one card / That I can't use / But I want you / [Pre-Chorus] / You're coming back / And it's the end of the world / We're starting over / And I love
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Mitski – Star
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[Verse 1] / Remember when we met? / We acted like two fools / We were so glad / So glad to have found it / [Chorus] / That love is like a star / It's gone, we just see it shinin
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Mitski – Class of 2013
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Recorded and self-released as a student project during her time at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music, the title “Class of 2013” likely refers to Mitski’s own cohort of
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Mitski – Townie
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In this song, Mitski captures the self-destructive fatalism of youth coupled with coming-of-age attitudes of anarchy against parental principles.
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Mitski – Stay Soft
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[Verse 1] / Fury, pure and silver / You grip it tight inside / Like a knife / It glints in your eye / [Verse 2] / It's why I've arrived, your sex god / Here to take you where / You
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Mitski – Door
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[Verse 1] / There is a door to me / I've never seen it / Sometimes I get closer to it / But I've never found it / At twilight, I almost had it / But then the night fell / I looked
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Mitski – Wife
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus 1] / I cannot bear you a son / But I
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Mitski – Bag of Bones
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“Bag of Bones” is said to be Mitski’s first-ever song, and details her outlook on a hollow relationship, most likely based solely around sexual gratification.
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Mitski – Francis Forever
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With a powerful melody carried by a tired voice, “Francis Forever” presents itself as a dark soft ballad that builds towards an epic ending, with some grunge influences.
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Mitski – Geyser
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“Geyser” is the first song from Mitski’s 2018 album Be the Cowboy, released on May 14th along with a music video. “Geyser” had previously been played live at shows (like this one
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Mitski – Real Men
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2] / Little boys cry and
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Mitski – Eric
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Verse 2] / Help me with the
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Mitski – Strawberry Blond
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Memories as shapes (of a body, of a trip with a romantic interest, of a potential relationship voided and thwarted by its unrequitedness) and as a hair colour are all Mitski can
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Mitski – Cop Car
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Previously an unreleased song that Mitski had played live (the first song on this 2014 show, played live in studio for KVRX Radio and WNYU Radio) the song was recorded and released
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Mitski – Last Words of a Shooting Star
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In this track, Mitski takes a frightening experience on a turbulent plane as a way to reflect on her life before death. The “shooting star” from the title is literally the plane in
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