♡ ↷ MITSKI'S ' BE THE COWBOY ' LYRIC STARTERS .
feel free to change pronouns , tense , et cetera to suit personal preference . trigger warning for sexual content , toxic dynamics , & strong language .
i’ve turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come .
i’m a geyser , feel it bubbling from below .
hear it call to me , constantly .
hear the harmony only when it’s harming me .
i will be the one you need .
i just can’t be without you .
i know that i ended it , but why won’t you chase after me ?
you know me better than i do .
why didn’t you stop me & paint it over ?
i look for a picture of you to keep in my pocket , but i can’t seem to find one .
we nearly drowned for such a silly thing .
someone who loves me now , better than you .
that pretty friend is finally yours .
i’ll be around on sunday , if you’ll meet me at blue diner .
i’ll take coffee & talk about nothing .
i’ll take anything you want to give me , baby .
i haven’t told anyone , just like we promised . have you ?
every time i drive through the city where you’re from , i squeeze a little .
you’re growing tired of me .
you love me so hard & i still can’t sleep .
you’re growing tired of me & all the things i don’t talk about .
sorry , i don’t want your touch .
it’s not that i don’t want you .
sorry , i can’t take your touch .
it’s just that i fell in love with a war , nobody told me that it ended .
it left a pearl in my head , & i roll it around every night just to watch it glow .
every night , baby , that’s where i go .
there’s a hole that you fill .
i call you , to see you again .
so i can win , & this can finally end .
spend an hour on my makeup to prove something .
walk up in my heels , all high & mighty .
you say ‘hello’ & i lose .
nobody butters me up like you .
nobody fucks me like me .
in the morning , in a taxi .
why am i lonely for lonesome love ?
i gave too much of my heart tonight .
can you come to where i’m staying & make some extra love ?
i need somebody to remember my name .
all that i can do for them is done .
i need something bigger than the sky .
hold it in my arms & know it’s mine .
just how many stars will i need to hang around me to finally call it heaven ?
i need someone to remember me .
to finally get somewhere i can be all done , somewhere like heaven .
i steal a few breaths from the world for a minute .
i’ll be nothing forever .
all of my memories & all of the things i have seen will be gone .
me & my husband , we’re doing better .
it’s always been just him & me .
i bet all i have on that furrowed brow .
at least in this lifetime , we’re sticking together .
i’m the idiot with the painted face , in the corner taking up space .
but when he walks in , i am loved .
do you wanna be my baby ?
are you waiting to touch me ?
maybe i’m the same as all those men , writing songs of all they’re dreaming .
would you tell me if you want me ?
i can’t move until you show me .
i didn’t know i had a dream .
i didn’t know until i saw you .
i open the window to hear sounds of people .
venus , planet of love , was destroyed by global warming .
did its people want too much ?
i don’t want your pity , i just want someone near me .
guess i’m a coward , i just want to feel alright .
i know no one will save me .
i just need someone to kiss .
give me one good honest kiss , & i’ll be alright .
i’ve been big & small & still nobody wants me .
i glow pink in the night in my room .
i’ve been blossoming alone over you .
i hear my heart breaking tonight .
it’s like a summer shower , with every drop of rain singing .
i could stare at your back all day .
i know i’ve kissed you before , but i didn’t do it right . can i try again ?
a lake with no fish is the heart of a horse named cold air .
who , when young , would run like a storm .
i thought i’d traveled a long way but i had circled the same old sin .
toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart , baby , bang it up inside .
i’m not wearing my usual lipstick .
i thought maybe we would kiss tonight .
baby , will you kiss me already ?
though i’ve closed my eyes , i know who you pretend i am .
somebody kiss me , i’m going crazy .
i’m walking 'round the house naked .
out there i’m a sharp knife .
are you that blue light ?
does it smell like a school gymnasium in here ?
it’s funny how they’re all the same .
we’ve both done it a hundred times before .
it’s funny how i still forgot .
it would be a hundred times easier if we were younger again .
we’re just two slow dancers , last ones out .
the ground has been slowly pulling us back down .
you see it on both our skin .
we get a few years & then it wants us back .
to think that we could stay the same .