A Catalog of Lyricism
Welcome,
Poets and Prospects
Buried deep in my Notes App, lay hundreds of untold tragedies, whimsical desires, and haunting narratives that reflect true understanding of my own life and perspective on the world. I've always felt the need to keep these personal words in the shadows, but now, after years and years, they've grown moss and have been choked in vines. In retrospect, this catalog has grown to be beautiful and worthwhile of sharing with others--so this is my chance to do it. If you have ever felt invisible in love, stuck in your own head, or had to let go before you were ready, these testimonies are for you. After all, sometimes you don't know how to say something out loud until you sing it.
About the Author
My name is Mia Jarrett and I am a senior at Newport Harbor High School. I have always had a huge love for songwriting and the music industry. The times I feel most myself are sitting on my bed with my fingertips like drums on the keyboard, writing lyrics in my Notes app, or sitting at my piano, dancing on the keys. Each song I write is part of a larger project, theme, or visual concept I am trying to convey as a part of a lyrical world. This site is a chance for me to go past the lyrics and truly dive into the reality of where these songs came from and why.
"Afterlove"
As I've previously mentioned, most of my songs and writings I do get categorized and rooted in specific projects that have certain aesthetics, visuals, and themes that I try and portray throughout each song that it's a part of. These projects span very specific time periods in my life and the experiences from those periods. This project is one of my newest, and I call it Afterlove. The songs I wrote for this project have to do a lot with the retrospective view of love. The narrator throughout these stories can be seen as all knowing of the meaning behind tragedy. Afterlove to me, is an open journal in soft light and travels through the journey of the quiet, devastating beauty of heartbreak. It is the softness after the storm. These are not love songs, they are Afterlove songs.
"Everything you need"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“So the inspiration for everything you need came from an idea I had to write from the perspective of a psychotic character. I was going through a period of my life where I had really strong feelings for somebody to where I felt toxic. I really wanted to play into that role of being an actual psychotic person when it comes to love because love truly can make you go crazy. I wanted to write it from the perspective of a woman in love with someone who's not in love with her. I wanted to follow her life and her choices throughout this song where she was trying to do everything in her power to win this guy back even if it meant taking away everything from him so that he had to rely on her. I wanted her actions to seem obsessive, psychotic and harmful but in her intentions, they were truly just acts of love in her own mind. I especially love the fun plot to set the end that truly puts a dark spin on the lyrics. Writing this song was so much fun and being able to sing it with all that emotion packed in there has been so much fun. This is one of my favorites so I hope you enjoy it.”
Early each morning
I water flowers
Set the nice table
And cook good dinners
I’ve watched you for ages
Reserved you a bedroom
The walls are psych white
Bought a straight jacket for you
Why do u look blue-ueee?
Can’t you see all I do-oo
To keep you
And to hold you
Why won’t you miss me
I choke you but somehow you’re slipping
Built you a cage, but made it pretty
Stay for a while, won’t you baby?
I did this for you
the chains and the locks
I can be everything you need
if I take away everything you want
I replay in my mind
The day you drove south
Chased you for miles
Slept in your house
I wrote up a blueprint
Built you a trap
But I made it with love
And the intention to get you
Ba-aaack
To the old life we haaaad
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Why won’t you miss me
I choke you but somehow you’re slipping
Built you a cage, but made it pretty
Stay for a while, won’t you baby?
I did this for you
the chains and the locks
I can be everything you need
if I take away everything you want
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I’ll rip out the garden
And tear up the floors
Set your car on fire
And deadlock the doors
I’ll cut of your phone lines
And turn off the lights
I’ll be your lifeline
The fire in cold nights
Ill break down walls
Stomp through the roof
Let in the storm
Until you get a clue
I’ll let you get close
To the feeling of death
Just so I can be the only thing
To give you that breath
So call me
Crazy
And call me crazy in love
But know that you are
Everything I want
Everything I want
Everything iiii
Why won’t you miss me
I choke you but somehow you’re slipping
Built you a cage, but made it pretty
Stay for a while, won’t you baby?
I did this for you
the chains and the locks
I can be everything you need
if I take away everything
I did this all for you
Do you hear the pain in my voice
I’ll be your air
Until you don’t have a choice
I did this for you
Tied up your limbs
Shut my trunk with you in it
Cuz I would’ve been the only way you lived
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"Huntress"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Huntress is one of my favorite songs because of how catchy and fun the lyrics are. I wanted to write a song about still being in love with an ex and watching them moving on to a new girl and that jealousy that comes with it. I had a metaphor that I came up with about how still being in love with someone who moves on makes you feel like a hunter or a witch that is doing everything in their power to wish ill will upon their replacement. I like how a lot of the lyrics in this song seem to be aimed at this new girl in an immature, spiteful way, however, once you really dig deep you understand that this lash out in a vengeful manner is just rooting from heartbreak and the remnants of passionate love. But I can't lie that all the sassy and sarcastic lyrics were so much fun to write so this one is definitely a personal favorite of mine.”
I’m not like her
And I’ll never be
Does she know how far we went?
We used to be a melody
And you know she’s young
And immature
But she’s got a pulse
And that’s your type, oh yeah I’m sure
But no one could ever love you like I did
And no one can clean up the messes that you made
Ahhhhh
I’m screaming
Fight the feeling
But I can still feel you
Nowwwwww
Im restless
Chasing silence
And I’m turning into a huntress
She walks right by
She’s poison ivey
But you’re glassy eyed
She'd be better at it than I’d be
I miss your harmonies
Do you miss my guitar?
She’s off-key, but pretty
But doesn’t know you at all
And she couldn’t hold a flame to the fire you started in my heart
She's a cheap disguise you put on to do your deals in the dark
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Ahhhhh
I’m screaming
Fight the feeling
But I can still feel you
Nowwwwww
Im restless
Chasing silence
And I’m turning into a huntress
Im not like her
'Cause I'm meant for you
I’ll trace the beat of your running feet
Till my arrow cuts right through
I’m not like her
'Cause I'm out my mind
She’ll catch the sickness I have
Till love is all that’s left behind
Im screaminggggg
I can feel you
Now.
Its this feelingggg
And baby im hunting you
Ahh
Im screaminggggg
I can feel you
Now.
Its this feelingggg
And baby im hunting you
Down.
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"Indigo"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Indigo is a song I really enjoyed writing because I got to write about something a little different. I wanted to write from the perspective of just feeling lost and empty, which is something I think we've all experienced a little bit before. I wanted to put myself in the perspective of someone who just has to look up at the sky and ask what they have to do in order to make everything better. I used Indigo as a sort of metaphor for an all-knowing person; God, spirits, and all together intuition. Indigo symbolizes spirituality and guidance and God which to me feels equally poetic and fitting to have that be the title of the song and also the being or power that this person is calling upon in order to give them insight. I think the way this song plays out is really beautiful and how it reveals that these feelings are just an inner war that she has with herself that she gets to control. At times, it can feel daunting and hard to get through moments of despair where you're at a loss, but I think realizing that you cannot constantly be at conflict with yourself is imperative.”
Indigo, I’m burning slow
I can’t fight what I don’t know
It hurts so much but I can’t bleed
How can I fix something I can’t see
Time drips like wax from a candle
This kind of hurt ain’t kind to me
Everything feels too big to handle
Getting high off my lows is ecstasy
And someone is killing the daylight
Catch the culprit before I turn cold and pale
Im engraving my initials with a knife now
Bleeding slow, its getting old, my heart is stale
How can I escape me
How can I change me
Indigo, I’m burning slow
I can’t fight what I don’t know
It hurts so much but I can’t bleed
How can I fix something I can’t see
Every hour that passes gets heavier
And I’m sick of standing straight and tall and proud
I’m playing dress up with emotions
I’ve never known a world where my mind is sound
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How can I get out of my head?
How can I put it to rest?
Indigo, I’m burning slow
I can’t fight what I don’t know
It hurts so much but I can’t bleed
How can I fix something I can’t see
I lay my sword down
I’m surrendering my town
But someone walks towards me
Iron fists and machinery
She fights and she fights
But she doesn’t back down
I’m crying out at night
All I want is to lay down
My eyes are a tapestry
She has no emotion
My tears fall like ecstasy
She’s just going through the motions
But I look up at her
I break down at what I see
We have the same fingerprints
She has the same blood I bleed
Indigo, I’m burning slow
I can’t fight me anymore
It hurts so much but I can’t bleed
How can I get rid of something, if that something is me?
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"Love no More"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Love no More is actually a song I wrote in the beginning of 2022. I was 14 and didn't have much if any experience of love, however, I think this is when my passion for writing truly bloomed into what it is today. I've been writing songs since I was around 7 or 8, however I think this song truly characterized my writing to be what it is now. Playing a character and writing about scenarios I've never been in truly became a hobby and such a fun challenge for myself. For a while, writing about other people was easier than writing about me and my own feelings. I thought that having a perspective wider than just myself was much easier to capture in terms of emotion and true meaning. Love No More was a song I wrote about knowing your worth and knowing when you have to leave a relationship that was once good but then faded pale. I think this song was really important to me because it was a start of my more mature writing and it still is a song now that I appreciate for its message and meaning. This is “Love no More”.”
I have to let go of your frozen hand
Grew out of your love like an old black dress
At first, it was hard to understand
That the thing I love most didn't love me in the end
Oooh
Oooooh
Oooh
Oooooh
'Cause I don’t love you anymore
No i don’t love you like before
Because your figure casts a different shadow, now it’s all rugged and mean
Yeah I don’t know you anymore
Your violent waves don’t meet my shore
Because the oil fire was let out and just left smoke
It’s time for me to go when there’s love no more
Don’t want your imprint in my bed no more
Time to dig the grave of our lost ships
Five months ago, knew ur voice was empty and bare
let’s call it gone, don’t wanna hold on to something that isn’t there
Oooh
Oooooh
Oooh
Oooooh
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'Cause I don’t love you anymore
No i don’t love you like before
Because your figure casts a different shadow, now it’s all rugged and mean
Yeah I don’t know you anymore
Your violent waves don’t meet my shore
Because the oil fire was let out and just left smoke
It’s time for me to go when there’s love no more
Oooh
Oooooh
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I should’ve known I had to go
When I was crying on the floor
I was screaming "I love you!" and you just stood there, a ghost
I should’ve known you didn’t care
When you just sat there by the stairs
Left me broken while you stared at the damn paintings on the walls
When you talked, I heard air
Your eyes, they left a glare
And the things that used to make me care
stood facing towards the water
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'Cause I don’t love you anymore
No i don’t love you like before
Because your figure casts a different shadow, now it’s all rugged and mean
Yeah I don’t know you anymore
Your violent waves don’t meet my shore
Because the oil fire was let out and just left smoke that filled my lungs
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I don’t love you anymore
I don’t love you like before
And falling out of love with you didn't hurt like it should
Now I don’t miss you anymore
Or how your silence could start a war
Because the butterflies that were there passed from the silent storm
No I don’t love you anymore
I don’t love you like before
Even when I liked you, it wasn’t love, it wasn’t more
It’s time for me to go
Ohh it’s time for me to go
It’s time for me to go
When there’s Love
No
More.
"Everglow"
Everglow is my next project that I want to share with you. This concept I think is my favorite and the one most dear to my heart because of how inspired I felt while writing this. Everglow is a project that captures the narrative of a night out and every single emotion that follows it. This body of work begins at midnight and ends at sunrise. This is where sadness is ethereal, hurting is euphoric, feelings can be delusional, and emotions can come running back to you in the morning. The visuals for this album have been dark, colorful, sparkly, and sad all at once. In my mind, this album is covered in synths, driving pop beats, and a bass you feel to your core. This album represents the glitter that lingered on your skin far after the party ended. With haunting metaphors, a timeline of love, and unexplained feelings, Everglow truly captures it all.
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"Delicate"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Delicate is such a fun song. I've been writing about “getting drunk” since I was about 12 and it's been such a fun narrative to play on. This song especially has really captured the passion and carelessness that comes from a night out that also has an odd juxtaposition that I love. The line “we lose our delicate hearts to the dark and they break when we’re sober” was the first line I wrote for this song and I knew what I wanted the hook and the theme to be. I thought it was such a cool idea to describe the consequences after a night out where you feel like you've laid your heart out and given it away to the night and the substances that you were once controlled by. I love the idea that our hearts only break when we've sobered up and woken up in the morning and the light of realization kisses our cheek as the sun comes up. I think delicate is probably the main backbone of the project Everglow, for me, because it truly displays what this project is all about. I hope you love this one because I truly do.”
I love the taste of your tongue
When you say you don’t care
It wraps me up in a bow
And takes me by my hair
I get caught in the high
And now my pulse has a sound
My eyes, they land on you
Their exploring your town
It’s not being des-perite
It’s just feeling care-less
Leaving the desolate
To find this confidence
Who cares about what i’ll think when it’s over
I’m more concerned with your teeth getting closer
I’ve found something in you to obsess over
We lose our delicate hearts to the dark, and they break when we’re sober
B-b-b-b break
When we’re sober
B-b-b-b break
When we’re sober
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Can I fall in love with you
Just for the night
Ingest your scent
And take up your light
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I get caught in the fire
Of your forest heart
Baby call me a liar
And tear me apart
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Boy it’s intimate
Lights off as we’re ki-issing
In a movie, i’m directing it
But i’m standing right there in it
Who cares about what i’ll think when it’s over
I’m more concerned with your teeth getting closer
I’ve found something in you to obsess over
We lose our delicate hearts to the dark, and they break when we’re sober
B-b-b-b break
When we’re sober
B-b-b-b break
When we’re sober
My heart got ahead of my balance
And now im falling
Neck deep
In a mess I started
But you know
This is all I wanted
Tomorrow me will feel it
All turn haunted
Who cares about what i’ll think when it’s over
I’m more concerned with your teeth getting closer
I’ve found something in you to obsess over
We lose our delicate hearts to the dark, and they break when we’re sober
B-b-b-b break
When we’re sober
B-b-b-b break
When we’re sober
​"Sadness sounds pretty"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Sadness sounds pretty is another one that I think really encapsulates the entire theme of the project. It's that delusion of sadness and romanticism of every sad emotion throughout a night out. (think: the drunk girl crying in the bathroom at the party). I remember the inspiration came from a time period of my life where I just loved being sad. I would sit in my room and just cry and I wouldn’t do anything to help myself because I truly liked it. I'm not sure why or what exactly was wrong with me but I loved being sad for a while. I came up with just the title “sadness sounds pretty" and came up with about five different versions of the song. Unfinished lyrics and verses just flooded my brain but none of them felt right. Finally, I came up with “I could swim in the streams down my face” And it felt perfect to me. I loved how each chorus brought a special metaphor and story to the song. The outro of the song also feels really special to me and I love the line “Wrapped in pearls of my pity” because I love a good alliteration and it just encapsulates the theme of the song to me. ”
My lungs fill with lillies
I visualize, romanticize
The way I bleed
My eyes drain themselves
I criticize, glamorize
The ecstasy
It’s a drug, it’s an infection
And I love this sick perception
Feeling nothing with no intention
In my head
My sadness sounds pretty
I could swim in the streams down my face
In my head
The worse seems easy
I’d rather loose than ever learn to love my face
I’m stuck in a dark light
I weep in cursive, but it’s worth it
To me
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I cried the all the colors out my eyes
But something about burning inside
feels free
I drown in imperfections
Enter depression dimension
Feeling nothing with every intention
In my head
My sadness sounds pretty
I could run through the maze of my mind
In my head
I break like stained glass
The colors cover the pain of my life
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But the truth is
If I voice it
It feels more real than happiness has ever been
But sometimes sleeping
And lazily weeping
Is more a comfort that joy has never been
But I love you
And it’s hurting
But I’m evil
And it’s working
Maybe life’s good
And it’s my perception
I force it on me
This heartache obsession
'Cause
In my head
My sadness sounds pretty
I could live without the need to care
In my head
I feel complete when i’m breaking
I sabatage myself to be fair
In my head
In my head
In my head
My sadness is so pretty
In my head
In my head
In my head
Wrapped in pearls of my pity
In my head
In my head
In my head
A haunted little city
In my head
In my head
In my head
My sadness sounds pretty
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"Incandescent Heart"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Incandescent Love, to me, describes toxicity in such a fun way. I love the melody of this song, and wish you could hear it through the page, but I know you’ll feel it somehow through the lyrics. The emotions that get high on a night out, the inner fight with love and hate for a person, and all those contradictions just get magnified when you're out. I think the metaphors in this song are super strong and the visuals are so fun. This song to me looks like a vintage '70s house with a lit cigar on the counter and a record player spinning a record right next to it. I visualize a girl with whiskey on the rocks in her hands dancing to her favorite vinyl while there’s shattered glass on the floor from a fight with her lover who's now upstairs and upset. and just thinking about how in about 30 minutes they will go back to being in love because that's just what magnetic love does to you. And that's what comes with true toxicity.”
The sunset bleeds with tequila
You’re upset but it’s built on a fever
You forget that the more that I need ya
The more I’m likely to leave
You make me feel like I’m younger in the future
Needing some type of suture
For the sultry of tonight
You make me think that tonight we are invincible
So unbelievably unbreakable
But I got you figured out
The records spinning on my desk
After you went to bed upset
But I keep coming back to your (ahh)
You and me are abstract art
My poison’s in your old cigar
But I keep coming back to your
Incandescent heart
My spine curves in your direction
He was conventional so I left him
You hit me right in my imperfections
But it happens to hurt so good
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You make me feel like I’m spinning in two ways
Like I’m high of this haze
Of your labyrinth
You make it hard for me to run
Like I’m looking at a loaded gun
But it’s my hand
The records spinning on my desk
After you went to bed upset
But I keep coming back to your (ahh)
You and me are abstract art
My poison’s in your old cigar
But I keep coming back to your
Incandescent heart
You’ll feed off my spite
(but I keep coming back)
The love might not last the night
(But you’re coming back coming back)
And I’d use you like a drug
(Cuz I keep coming back)
To this sensual, incandescent love
(Coming back !!)
The records spinning on my desk
After you went to bed upset
But I keep coming back to your (ahh)
You and me are abstract art
My poison’s in your old cigar
But I keep coming back to your
Incandescent heart
(ahhhh)
(ahhhh)
(ahhhhh-AH)
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"Faded Feelings"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Even though I truly have said this about every song I've published on here, I truly truly love this song so much and It is definitely a top 3 song for me. I think it transcends past any feeling of normal break ups and instead give this realistic beauty to letting someone go. In this song, I think there is such a hopefulness that while losing feelings for someone can be hurtful, it can also heal the lesions in your heart and allow things to be washed away. I wrote this about a completely fictional and imaginary scenario but the funny thing about those types of songs is I end up relating to them later in life. Faded Feelings feels timeless to me and a song that has this euphoric sound and rooted soul to it. Hopefully you love it as much as I do.”
The world is on fire
And you're reading history
You stared at the ceiling more than you started into me
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You filled up my nights
With dust and fluorescent dreams
I choked up my feelings and used to use your throat to breathe
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These are faded feelings, faded feelings
They're fading 'cause we lost the need in them
Faded feelings, faded feelings
We're broken but baby we're breathing
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I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
(Faded feelings faded feelings)
I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
(Faded feelings faded feelings)
I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
(Faded feelings faded feelings)
Can hurt the lovers but baby, they can heal them too
I thought the flowers would wilt before us
But I was wrong, so I'll view this love like a
Setting sun
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You hold me in your car
Your veins intertwine with mine
This won't make me feel better but soon this weight will not be mine
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These are faded feelings, faded feelings
They're fading 'cause we lost the need in them
Faded feelings, faded feelings
We're broken but baby we're breathing
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I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
(Faded feelings faded feelings)
I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
(Faded feelings faded feelings)
I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
(Faded feelings faded feelings)
Can hurt the lovers but baby, they can heal them too
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I'll find love for myself that doesn't come from you
I'll find streets that don't lead right to your room
I'll find the good in the fire
Like I used to find the truth in the liar
I'll see the good in myself and it won't remind me of you
I'll stay up for the moon not to listen to the blues
I'll find a way to love without loving you
Loving you
Loving you
(Section repeated)
Your world is on fire
And you're reading history
I breathe in, 'cause baby, I've never felt more free
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"Current
Aches"
Current Aches is really special to me because it is my youngest project that I’m gonna share. There’s been plenty of projects before, but none that have kept my same songwriting integrity. I wrote Current Aches when I was 13 and I wrote about things I had no idea about. I think that’s what makes this project so valuable and precious to me is that I was writing about things I hadn’t experienced yet but soon would. I think I called the project Current Aches because of how I wanted it to seem young. I wasn’t writing about things I knew about, but I was writing about things I knew would understand in the upcoming years. I didn’t want a full retrospective understanding of emotions and I didn’t want maturity strung throughout each song. I wanted each song just to be a current expression of a fleeting feeling that someone might have in their teenage years and I felt no need to explain it in a logical manner. I think experiencing life as a teenager is one of the most complex things. Every tiny thing feels so big. You’ve barely lived and all you can think about is the tiny brush strokes in the painting without seeing the big picture—but that’s the art of it. Having emotions as a teenager is anything but logical. Current Aches is a mess of youth, and an abstract painting of what it means to be a teenager falling in and out of love. Ironically, written by someone who hadn’t even became one yet.
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"Quite Right"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“This is probably the oldest song or one of the oldest songs in this catalog. This song is really special to me because I think this is right around when I started falling in love with songwriting. I really liked this idea about someone becoming your whole world and then in an instant they just become the reason you're tossing and turning at night. I think it's such a juxtaposition when you fall in and out of love because of how much your world feels like it changes. Because this project is centered around fleeting dramatic feelings, I thought it was super fitting to write a song about how someone can be your everything and in a flash they just leave your narrative.”
the worst thing about loving you was having something to lose
i used to live free, then i had a shorter fuse
and i drive by the restaurants where we tried the expensive wine
yeah memories they’re funny things, we look at them with older eyes
so tell me why do i still cry?
you were all i needed
the one person i believed in
took everything you said as the truth
and that made me look like a damn fool
remember when i couldn’t wait to make you my whole life
now your the reason that i just don’t sleep quite right
i loved the way you used to sing to me like you wrote the song
like the radio was so sensible, didn’t last for very long
then i treated you like you treated them, loved what i didn’t own
like the road that i’d always traveled by didn’t feel much like home
(anymore)
the wheels got sore
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you were all i needed
the one person i believed in
took everything you said as the truth
and that made me look like a damn fool
remember when i couldn’t wait to make you my whole life
now your the reason that i just don’t sleep quite right
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you said forever
so tell me where did the love go
you said now or never
now i’m never gonna feel at home
you said you loved me
so now why do i love alone
you said you felt the way i felt
but now i’m by myself on a one way road
you were all i needed
the one person i believed in
took everything you said as the truth
and that made me look like a damn fool
remember when i couldn’t wait to make you my whole life
now your the reason that i just don’t sleep quite right
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"A Little Like That"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“This is another old song that I wrote a while ago. I wanted to write about the idea that after a guy breaks up with you he just reuses and regifts all the same compliments, dates, and feelings. I think it sucks seeing someone move on and just see them clone every way they treat you and put it on to someone else. Once again this was a feeling I had absolutely no idea about, but through watching real life, watching TV shows, watching movies, this idea came to me like a spark and I was able to just run with it and I really love this song..”
you’re back at it again
playing with little girls' hearts who are just learning to walk again
and there you are once more
promising the future like the hands it’s in is yours
but you weren’t big on keeping promises that you swore
so
you’ll sit at that diner on main street
and you’ll order
something like a hot tea
i could recite the night so perfectly
cuz you said those same words to me
and you’ll
take her home play a song she won’t forget
and from then on
that song will always have your scent
and you’ll promise something she’ll never really have
it’ll go a little like that
so your back at it again
meeting the parents of a new girlfriend
so you’ve found a girl
showing her our hiding spots, exploring our world
(does she know i was first)
so go ahead and reuse all the compliments that I once heard
so
you’ll sit at that diner on main street
and you’ll order
something like a hot tea
i could recite the night so perfectly
cuz you said those same words to me
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and you’ll
take her home play a song she won’t forget
and from then on
that song will always have your scent
and you’ll promise something she’ll never really have
it’ll go a little like that
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do you order the same thing on the first date
(do you? do you?)
do you ask her the same questions at dinner
(do you? do you?)
do you buy her flowers from that same grocery store
(do you? is it all reused?)
do you tell her your gonna put a ring on her finger
but i bet you say that as fast as you’ll leave her
so
you’ll take her to dinners you’ll pay for
and she’ll think
you’re everything she hoped and more
she was fooled the way that i was too
what a damn fool we were to love you
and you’ll
hold her tight kiss her in the middle of a sentence
and then you will
call her perfect and clone every text you send us
you’ll unfold every used crumpled paper and send it to her
you gave them the same twisted love and the same world of hurt
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"Another Stupid Song"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Another Stupid Song is a really fun one. I love the irony of writing a song about how you don't want to write a song about someone. I genuinely think having a song written about you is one of the highest honors, even if it's in a negative way. I think spending the time to write poetically about someone can be a compliment and it does suck when you have such a good idea to write about someone who is just awful to you because you do not want to give them that honor or recognition. This song is about that feeling of just not wanting to have to put their name in another song, not having to write their actions into your narrative, and overall just wanting to run away from those feelings you once had. But as I have found in life, writing songs is one of the best ways to get over that heartbreak, so you just write another stupid song..”
so i guess that you have fallen at my feet
and i guess i lost the right of being what you need
the seasons change so now we’ve gotta dance
our way out of this forsaken mess
i guess the way i cope now is writing words on a page
pairing a guitar with the feelings of my pain
maybe it really solved nothing long term
and its recognition you sure don’t deserve
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so i’m not gonna write another stupid song about you
cuz i’m done crying over the things you didn’t do
cuz we didn’t last so come on
i just wanna learn how to move on
without having to write another stupid song
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i know i shouldn’t give you the time of day
because it’s hard enough now that you didn’t stay
and you were a glimpse of my life i dont want to remember
so why in my songs do i engrave the time we were together
And I know your name does nothing for my health
And reciting the scars is my own type of hell
But I dont think time is a strong enough medication
Even though you left, your shadow has a way of staying
so i’m not gonna write another stupid song about you
cuz i’m done crying over the things you didn’t do
cuz we didn’t last so come on
i just wanna learn to move on
without having to write another stupid song
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la da da da da da
la da da da da da da da da da
la da da da da da
la da da da
so i’m not gonna write another stupid song about you
cuz i’m done crying over the things you didn’t do
cuz we didn’t last so come on
cant find it in myself to move on
But i guess for now i’ll write another stupid song
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"Lust"
Lust is one of my favorite projects because I think it really represents the kind of writing that I do to this day. It's one of the most recent projects, and Lust really embodies the magical feelings of heartbreak and love. I wanted Lust to sound metaphorical, poetic, but also reveal the instant truth and reality of the equal opposite hard feelings. Lust is so fun to write and I love some of the melodies on these songs. I think this project was a bit of a turn in my life because I started writing about things I actually knew about. Up until this point, I was writing about adult scenarios that I had no idea about and feelings I hadn't experienced yet. This is when I truly started to get more personal but still kept the idea of storytelling in my songs and added a few things that may or may not have happened in my real life.:) This is Lust.
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"Lust"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“The song Lust feels like the most fun word vomit ever. I think the day that I wrote it, it took about 15 minutes. Not because this is an easy song to write or because it was sloppy, but because I had this idea for so long. I had the word Lust written in my notes for probably 6 months before I actually ended up writing a song about it, and I ended up just spitting out words and lyrics and phrases on a page and it became this beautiful song. I wanted it to sound never ending with constant jumbles of words but also I wanted those jumbles of words to have extreme meaning. The melody of the song is so fun and I'm always playing it on piano in my room. Despite the sad lyrics I think this song would be so fun to have it be upbeat. I love this song and the story it tells so I hope you do too..”
Tell me im crazy for wanting you
Missing everything that you do
Call me stupid but I call u still
Don’t pick up, but your voicemail’s filled
I’m running up and down the block
Chasing things I don’t even want
And I’m swimming in the deep end
Even if your drowning
I’m gonna drown in too
Cuz baby
I get lost in the things that I lost
Call it love when all I have is lust
Call things shiny when they turn to rust
I fall harder when they fall out of love
I get high off of all our lows
I get mad on the fate that I chose
I’m so in love with you that time froze
I get lost in the lust of our broken, broken home
Couldn’t count on my hand all the times
You’ve rented space all up in my mind
Don’t pay a monthly, but I’ll take other payments
Will u stop by even tho I would hate it
Is it weird that I’d still take you back
You’re the best of my old life I had
Now it’s fading in color
Turned winter from summer
But I’d freeze in time as long as it’s with you, baby
I get lost in the things that I lost
Call it love when all I have is lust
Call things shiny when they turn to rust
I fall harder when they fall out of love
I get high off of all our lows
I get mad on the fate that I chose
I’m so in love with you that time froze
I get lost in the lust of our broken, broken home
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I am still mending from the storm
You’re looking finer than ever
I am still knocking at your door
Give me a second doesn’t have to be forever
I am still mending from your wreck
You’re looking healthier than ever
I am still laying in our bed
How long has it been? It’s felt like forever
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I get lost on the things that I lost
Call it love when all I have is lust
I’m so tired
And I’m so stupid
I get high off of all our lows
I get mad on the fate that I chose
I’m so over it
But I’m not over you
I get lost in the things that I lost
Call it love when all I have is lust
Call things shiny when they turn to rust
I fall harder when they fall out of love
I get high off of all our lows
I get mad on the fate that I chose
I’m so in love with you that time froze
I get lost in the lust of our broken, broken home
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"Pretty Crime"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Pretty Crime is such a fun one. I love the metaphors and the catchy vibe to this song. I can just picture the fun synths and pop melodies that would come with these lyrics. I wrote this song about being into a guy that I knew was bad for me and that I knew would cause judgment and scandal. But I think honestly, especially being in high school, that's kind of the thrill of it. I think oftentimes you can't take life that seriously and this song embodies exactly that. I had so much inspiration writing this.”
you say hey and we’ll meet by the coastline
we’re 2 star-crossed lovers watching stars collide
and the cities got its secrets that it keeps for you
rose colored lenses when the uv is 9
we’re painting pictures mixing both shades of our eyes
loving you is tearing every little thing out of me
Ohhh
Two eyes blurry
Four hands bloody
Your hands ‘round my neck, teaching me how to breathe
We’re killing time
Im a pretty white lie
We vandalize our hearts in the nighttime,
Im an accomplice
Watching us kiss
Burning the shadow of my figure, watch it glisten
But we’re a skyline
My beat’s the highline
Baby our love is one pretty crime
And now your hands are in places, that’s a bad sign
We’re locking lips sharing the taste of the white wine
And your arms are meant for holding what I can’t keep
And It’s a promise that we make burning bridges down
As of right now you’re the only lips in this town
And it’s thrilling watching you do the things you do
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Ohhh
Two eyes blurry
Four hands bloody
Your hands ‘round my neck, teaching me how to breathe
We’re killing time
Im a pretty white lie
We vandalize our hearts in the nighttime,
Im an accomplice
Watching us kiss
Burning the shadow of my figure, watch it glisten
But we’re a skyline
My beat’s the highline
Baby our love is one pretty crime
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I know eventually you will see me for me
A people pleasing ecstasy who only lives inside her dreams
But baby you know everything that I believe, is every breath that you breathed, im living off your gravity
I know I know I know I knowwww, (ahhh)
I know I know I know I knowwww, (but I really dont)
Ohhh
Two eyes blurry
Four hands bloody
Your hands ‘round my neck, teaching me how to breathe
We’re killing time
Im a pretty white lie
We vandalize our hearts in the nighttime,
Im an accomplice
Watching us kiss
Burning the shadows of my figure, watch it glisten
But we’re a skyline
My beat’s the highline
Baby our love is one pretty crime
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"Good for my Heart"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“This is one of the prime examples of a song I wrote after hearing a line in a TV show that really inspired me. There was an episode of Euphoria that came out in between season one and season two where Zendaya and Colman Domingo are just sitting in a diner sharing really intimate feelings with one another for an hour straight. There is a line that he said that I wrote in my notes and kept it in there for about a year. He said “Not everything that is good to you is good for you”. That has still been one of my favorite lines that I've heard in the media because I think it's so true and the phrase has so much weight to it. I really wanted to write that type of song and use the line ‘I don't think you're good for my heart’. Oftentimes people we love are good to us and give us brief moments of pleasure, but in the long run we realize that they have been eating at our hearts and our energy and our efforts. This song is about exactly that and how that realization brings freedom..”
You collect my words like change
Didn’t know we weren’t playing the same game
Head over bare feet, I fell
Hate to admit it but you know me too well
Gave me your word, you were crossing your fingers
Made it hurt, and then made it linger
I’ve been paper-clipped to your file
What a waste, what a downward spiral
I told myself over and over
I’m over my head
but my feelings won’t rest
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Ahhhhhhhh-iiii don’t think you’re good for my heart
Your rivers flooding every part of me but my guitar
So I’ll sing these words to feel oceans apart from you
When all I want to be is a part of you
But you let me go, killed me to keep me afloat
Are you looking for gratitude? Cuz if u are, then don’t
You’re not good for my heart, cuz you take up space
So much of my life’s looking in a crowd for your face
And it’s all rushing back, you’re every creak in my flat
And you’re the only person I could ever love like that
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You are kind, but the sloppy kind of dumb
Who plays charades like it’s all fun
Faked till you made it, turns out it never was
What I thought, no I was just young
But I counted on our future
I’m such a fool for you
I’d come back running if you’d ask me to
I told myself over and over
I’m over my head
But I ran with your love
Or what I considered it to be made of
Ahhhhhhhh-iiii don’t think you’re good for my heart
Your rivers flooding every part of me but my guitar
So I’ll sing these words to feel so far apart from you
When all I wanna be is a part of you
But you let me go, killed me to keep me afloat
Are you looking for gratitude? Cuz if u are, then don’t
You’re not good for my heart, cuz you take up space
So much of my life’s looking in a crowd for your face
And it’s all coming back, you’re every creak in my flat
And you’re the only person I could ever love like that
Do you know how much of a hold you had on me
You stitched me right up and then I broke at the seams
And I opened my heart to show you all of my hiding spots
Just for you to hide in them and do me wrong
Do you know how many people I talked you up to
You should’ve seen how I fell in love with everything you do
And you became a reason to check my phone all the time
Then you flipped a switch and became the reason I cry
Ahhhhhhhh-iiii don’t think you’re good for my heart
Your rivers flooding every part of me but my guitar
So I’ll sing these words to feel so far apart from you
When all I wanna be is a part of you
But you let me go, killed me to keep me afloat
Are you looking for gratitude? Cuz if u are, then don’t
You’re not good for my heart, cuz you take up space
So much of my life’s looking in a crowd for your face
And it’s all coming back, you’re every creak in my flat
And you’re the only person I could ever love like that
You’re not good for my heart, cuz you’re in disguise
I can’t look at you without seeing someone my type
Trying to leave it behind, but it’s all that I see
You're not good for my heart even if you're good to me.
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"Don't Know How to Love"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“This song is one of the many examples of songs that I wrote across a long period of time. I think I wrote the chorus of this song in 2023 and sat on it for probably a year and a half before writing the rest. I think it’s those type of processes that allow me to write richer than I would’ve if I just forced myself to sit down and write the rest. You can’t force inspiration where it doesn’t come, and you just have to have patience throughout the writing process. You’ll end up having a much better product than if you were to just force something that didn’t feel right. But I do love the overall theme of this song just feeling like a liability for love and a true mistake when it came to finding someone. Feeling helpless, like there was a curse on my life and my choices, was such an interesting concept to write about because it’s definitely something that I know I can relate to in certain times in my life and a very dramatic standpoint for a small period of emptiness.”
And its hard to see worth
In anything I am
I’m taking all the wrong steps
In no man’s land
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I’m making careless mistakes
Never learn my lesson
I’m tired of playing the fool
So to you, I’m confessing​
That I'm wrong, and I’m blue, and I’m worn
That I’m broken, and I’m ripped, and I’m torn
So
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take me away
take me away with the wind
i run too fast to forgive
play my cards without seeing em
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give me up
give me up to the sun
it’s hard not to stay when you don’t know how to run
don’t know how to love
And it’s difficult to see
The ways in which I’m knived
I’ll fall into anything
As long as it’s disguised
I’m just looking for a hand
It don’t need to be that special
Why do I feel cursed
With a wretched fate of hell
Of losers, manipulators, and con man’s
Dressed as futures, and warm hands, and romance
Now
take me away
take me away with the wind
i run too fast to forgive
play my cards without seeing em
give me up
give me up to the sun
it’s hard not to stay when you don’t know how to run
don’t know how to love
My steps I’m taking are crooked
And my eyesights not level
I’m in love with a broken man
Fool myself that he’s better
I coverup up my bruises
With blankets of excuses
But I’ve given up on most things
Cuz I’m so damn used to losing
So just
take me away
take me away with the wind
i run too fast to forgive
play my cards without seeing em
give me up
give me up to the sun
it’s hard not to stay when you don’t know how to run
don’t know how to love
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"Something Greater"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Something greater was a song I wrote after being cheated on by the guy that I was with. This song came about not out of sadness or true loss, but instead looking back and realizing how much I was justifying this man’s actions, and romanticizing the minimal effort he would put in. I was forcing myself to have feelings for someone who ultimately had feelings for me first. This song is less about the hurt and more about the realization that all I was doing was trying to make him out to be a better person than he was well all he was doing was looking to find someone that was better for him than I was.”
Homesick and loveless
And all shades of blue
No promise or wishes
You’re all types of cool
You fell short, I fell hard
I shouldn’t be surprised
I felt more, had more scars
Now you wanna leave it behind
But
I search in every one of your empty words for something greater
No go ahead and blame it all on me
I search the party for you, guess I should been looking for a liar
With a girl that’s prettier than me, oh well
I Guess you found something greater
In someone else
Gold plate and tough love
I really thought i knew you
Gave you fun, wasn’t enough
In my hands, like water you went through
Beer cans in your hands
you’re not smart enough to spite me
You’re just stupid, and I was a kid
But you still watched me bleed
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I search in every one of your empty words for something greater
No go ahead and blame it all on me
I search the party for you, guess I should been looking for a liar
With a girl much prettier than me, oh well
I Guess you found something greater
In someone else
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And now you can’t drown out all the silence in the sounds of regret and mistakes
They’ll stay with you
Cause times gonna chase you down the roads that you made and don’t you dare forget the way
I longed for you
Cause now your looking back at the blood from the past that stains both of your hands
And Ill stain your heart worse
But now I’m in your bones, in every room, every road, I know you wanna scream my name
You can’t forget my hurt, and the way I loved you
first
I searched in every one of your empty words for something greater
Just to watch you blame this shit on me
And now I can stare right through you, you’re nothing but a hollow hearted liar
And you’ll never get away from what you tried to leave, it’ll give you hell
Watching me find something greater in someone else
"Fragments"
Fragments is a project that I wanted to write because I truly felt like a fragment of myself during this time period. Ironically this is the most recent project in this catalog and the one I actually wrote in the past couple days. I fell in love with the idea of writing different songs about each fragment of myself. I think oftentimes it's easy for me to write about love or the equal opposite, but it's harder to write about those in between feelings that just feel like fragments. I wanted to write about those feelings but with immense depth and meaning. I wanted to challenge myself and write intentionally with the purpose of exploring more facets of myself. This encapsulates a lot of insecurity, some confidence, and even regret. While this project is still unfinished, I can share with you some of the songs that have been written for this project that will still encapsulate the theme. I hope that with this project you also explore fragments of yourself.
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"Glass on Fire"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Being a teenager, while sometimes downplayed, can be extremely stressful. You feel like the world is always moving faster than you can, everyone is always telling you you're in the best years of your life, and there's so much pressure to figure out who you want to be and what your future is going to look like. Despite what many may think, I think being a teenager is one of the hardest periods of your life. Glass on Fire was a song I wrote about feeling like glass on fire. While that may sound simple, I really just wanted to write a song about the many breakdowns I was having constantly over the stress and weight I felt was put on my back at this moment of time. I felt helpless, not worthy, and I remember just saying out loud to my mom, ‘I'm just killing myself trying’ and I knew that was a line I wanted to write down because I knew I could write something about that feeling. I truly think this song can resonate with anyone of any age. I think everyone has felt like they were on fire at least once in their life..”
I’ve been told that pressure is good
After all, its what makes diamonds
Broken down and misunderstood
I’m just coal that they keep demanding
A child is to be made of gold
Composed and oh so put together
But I happen to break out of the mold
But I promise I can make it up with all of me
Chasing rivers, throwing stones
Can’t get up , or get off my phone
I’ve pushed myself, off the cliff
“Just breathe in, and keep your grip”
Oh, I think my porcelain’s gonna crack
Every bit of me stretched out, I want back
I can’t be the best at anything, I’m killing myself trying
Oh, perfection is a hunger I can’t feed
Chasing a light that’ll never be reflected on me
I can’t be the best at anything, I’m losing myself trying
Pressure builds like glass on fire
The slack line I’m towing is giving out
Grasping on to the spark that I once had
I feel like a machine that’s been worn out
Chasing rivers, throwing stones
Can’t get up , or get off my phone
I’ve pushed myself, off the cliff
“Just breathe in, and keep your grip”
Oh, I think my porcelain’s gonna crack
Every bit of me stretched out, I want back
I can’t be the best at anything, I’m killing myself trying
Oh, perfection is a hunger I can’t feed
Chasing a light that’ll never be reflected on me
I can’t be the best at anything, I’m losing myself trying
I'm tired of hurting, tired of trying
Bet you're tired of watching, watching me falling
I can't be good at anything
Anything
I'm tired of bleeding, tired of lying
Saying I can handle the standards I'm fighting
I can't be good at anything
Anything
Most will spend their time on the game
I’ll spend my life looking at the scoreboard
But what’s it worth when I’m losing myself
Don’t feel like me anymore
Oh, I think my portraits gonna fall
I’ve lost, could’ve sworn I had it all
I’m not the best at anything, trying’s a losing game
Oh, I think I’m surrendering to the Gods
That told me to be everything that I’m not
I’m just not good at anything, trying’s a losing game
(Cause I’m losing myself trying)
(So tired of killing myself trying)
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"Kiss to Keep"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“Kiss to Keep is exploring a little bit of immaturity and sass. I think this one is a fun one and can be perceived in a different way than it was intended to be, but I kind of like that. This song is a little bit of a diss towards catty mean girls who think they can sweep in and replace the role you had in an important guy's life. I think there is such a theme in this song that just explores how some people are just there for a moment and some are there for forever. I wrote this with the intention of saying that I knew what I had meant to this person and I knew that was irreplaceable because of his actions and words. There is something so special about that bond between somebody, and when someone tries to make you feel jealous or replaced by flaunting or saying mean things behind your back, you just laugh knowing that they hold nothing to that role you still have in their life.”
I heard you think this is a competition
Well that’s awfully sweet that you think you compare
Trying to spite me, you’ve got awfully big ambitions
But look at me and look at you, we both know its not fair
You’re the lipstick on a glass
I’m the wine they pour over and over again
Don’t you know I’m built to last
He knows he gets what he wants from you in an instant
But I come back in figments
I’m the one they kiss to keep
And you’re the girl they keep around to kiss
I’m the picture they’re sleeping next to
In a house they couldn’t care to miss
I’m the ocean, you’re a fleeting stream
So go ahead and try to get to me
But while they’re chasing you for quick thrills
I’m the one they run after so they can be still
You’re the confetti on the marble floor
And I’m the timeless marble that will always stay
Sure, you give him pleasure, but don’t you know he wants more?
No flicker in the dark, they want a steady flame
Im the end all, be all
You’re the detours in the path
You’re the leaves that fall
And he knows better than that
All your notes fall flat
I’m the one they kiss to keep
And you’re the girl they keep around to kiss
I’m the picture they’re sleeping next to
In a house they couldn’t care to miss
I’m the ocean, you’re a fleeting stream
So go ahead and try to get to me
But while they’re chasing you for quick thrills
I’m the one they run after so they can be still
I’m the one they kiss to keep
I’m the one they fall into without warning
Your the night out in dirty 6th street
I’m the one that stays till the morning
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"Bleach"
Mia Jarrett
About the Song:
“I think I have about five songs that have the title Bleach–and I’m not even being dramatic. Bleach is a concept I wanted to write for so long but I've never really found the right words for it. I think a lot of it just felt basic, or on the nose, and I didn't want it to sound like that. This song was so fun to write because I loved the realization that you cannot clean a person's memory with bleach because they are the bleach that is staining you. My favorite lyric in this song is actually the first line because I love the imagery that it paints. I wanted the song to open with a visual of a girl just putting her weight on the bathroom counter and looking up at herself in the mirror with absolute distress and sadness and heartbrokenness. I think bleach just speaks for itself and the lyrics are some of my favorite and most mature lyrics yet. I love this one so so much. Hope you do too.”
My fingertips are melting on the marble, I
Put all my weight of my distress on this counter
It’s been a fortnight and a dozen others know me by touch
You’d think I’m over it, but something pulls me under
When your not here, it’s easier to fantasize about it
There’s nothing here to inflame my infection now
It’s all so suffocating trying to move on with your prints
Plastered round every restaurant downtown
You
Are the one thing I can’t clean with bleach
It’s true
Your phantom follows me but stays out of my reach
The bruise
Of every promise shattered, every plead
My hues
Are burned right out of me from your veins that bleed bleach
I trace the ringlets that you carved on the bartop
Bartender knows my scars by name
My novelties are melting ice in my whiskey
I tried to stay sober but your ghost pours, it hates me
You
Are the one thing I can’t clean with bleach
It’s true
Your phantom follows me but stays out of my reach
The bruise
Of every promise shattered, every plead
My hues
Are burned right out of me from your veins that bleed bleach
And I can
Feel your heat, hear your breath
Always
Reminding me, to never let
Your shadow
Out of my sight
I can’t fight all these feelings at once
So I surrender to your love
You
Are the one thing I can’t keep off my mind
It’s true
That my feelings for you are taking up all my lies
I’m blue
My life’s just for running to you or from you, I
Don’t know what to do
This bleach is eating me from the inside
Tips to Songwriting!
1 / Find Favorite Words
Most of the song titles and lyrics I have come up with have originated from a single word. I will always write , wherever I am, a word that inspires me or a phrase that I hear that sounds catchy or interesting. The best lyrics come from the unexpected and building a theme or a story off of a beautiful word or phrase is one of my favorite ways to craft.
2 / Create Characters
I would say 75% of my songs I have written have come from the perspective of a completely different person. Start to challenge yourself with prompts; write from the perspective of a friend, family member, fantasy character, villain, witch, or an inanimate object even. You'll start to find that stepping outside yourself often gives you the most creative freedom and expression.
3 / Read and Watch
Watching films and reading novels has been my favorite source of creativity. You get to feed yourself with new vocabulary, characters, visuals, and story arcs that can be interpreted into songs or just spark an idea for a new story. There has been so many times I have heard a line in a movie or read a word in a book that sparked a moment of inspiration and I was able to bring a whole new perspective and thought to a situation or song.