Please Just Stay Dead Lyrics
[Verse 1]
All the pets I’ve buried
Just wanted me to know
Sometimes it’s ok
To let a good thing go
Wrap you in yarn and grass
Embalm you with milk
And lay you to rest
In cardboard lined with silk
[Chorus]
Wildfires have been eating you
Inside of my head
Trying to smoke you out
Or burn you alive in it
This time, please just stay dead
[Verse 2]
This living room memorial
Doesn’t bear a name
I guess I can’t blame you
But I hate you all the same
I wear your homemade tattoos
All over my skin
You put your cigarettes out on me
They’re still sinking in
All the pets I’ve buried
Just wanted me to know
Sometimes it’s ok
To let a good thing go
Wrap you in yarn and grass
Embalm you with milk
And lay you to rest
In cardboard lined with silk
[Chorus]
Wildfires have been eating you
Inside of my head
Trying to smoke you out
Or burn you alive in it
This time, please just stay dead
[Verse 2]
This living room memorial
Doesn’t bear a name
I guess I can’t blame you
But I hate you all the same
I wear your homemade tattoos
All over my skin
You put your cigarettes out on me
They’re still sinking in
About
Genius Annotation
This song references to the 1989 film Pet Sematary, considering the song mentions burying pets, and in the film, the main character has problems with wanting to bring the dead back to life. One of the more famous quotes in the movie is
Sometimes, dead is just better.
Over on the Nicole Dollanganger Wiki they mention an unreleased Nicole song titled “Pet Cemetery,” so for her to reference the film isn’t such a stretch.
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