Mitski - Stay Soft Lyrics

Mitski Lyrics

"Stay Soft"

Fury, pure and silver
You grip it tight inside
Like a knife
It glints in your eye

It's why I've arrived, your sex god
Here to take you where
You need to go
To where the dark remembers you

Open up your heart
Like the gates of hell

You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up

I am face down on my bed
Still not quite awake yet
Thinking of you
I tuck my hand under my weight

Just tell me what you want to do
Tell me what you want
To burn away
'Cause I could be your stoker

Open up your heart
Like the gates of hell

You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up

You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up

Only natural to harden up

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Thanks to ebban for adding these lyrics.

Writer(s): Mitsuki Laycock

Mitski said of "Stay Soft", "This song, frankly, is about hurt people finding each other, and using sex to make sense of their pain. This is by no means the correct way to cope with trauma, but it's a thing people do regardless, and I always want to write songs about what we actually do, so that we don't feel alone in them."

The music video for "Stay Soft" was directed by Maegan Houang, who said of it in a statement, "This video is heavily inspired by Romanticism and paintings and artwork from the Victorian era. Like the lyrics of the song 'Stay Soft', paintings from that era have a gentle quality, but they still evoke a certain feeling of unexplored darkness and danger. I want the audience to feel safe within this fabricated world and then realize that the character Mitski plays is being hunted."

album: "Laurel Hell" (2022)

Valentine, Texas

Working For The Knife

Stay Soft

Everyone

Heat Lightning

The Only Heartbreaker

Love Me More

There's Nothing Left Here For You

Should've Been Me

I Guess

That's Our Lamp

Glide (Lily Chou-Chou)

(Rough Trade Bonus Track)

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