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Darling by Halsey

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Halsey

Darling

Release date: 26th August 2021

From If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Track 7
3:02
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About This Track

A Dork five-star record. 'Darling' arrives as a moment of tender restraint within Halsey's most ferocious album statement. Where much of 'If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power' charges forward with industrial rock intensity and pop-punk velocity, this track strips back to fingerpicked guitar and the quietest kind of vulnerability. The song moves through fragmented images of displacement and instability, a body carried like cargo, medication that barely holds, a life spent moving without anchor. But the chorus offers something different: a promise of shelter, of being seen in dreams, of a place to sleep. The emotional architecture here is one of radical tenderness emerging from damage. Halsey sings to someone they have found who has shown them how to love being alive, and the song becomes an act of devotion built from small, luminous gestures: kidnapping stars to keep in someone's eyes, wrapping them in velvet, hanging them where they can be visited. It is gorgeous and folky in the way the review notes, but it is also a song about finding solid ground after years of living on the road with nowhere to be buried. The production lets the voice and guitar breathe, making space for the emotional weight to land without distraction.

"Darling" is a track by Halsey, from the album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, released 26th August 2021. The track is 3:02 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Halsey.

About the Artist

Halsey

Halsey

Lyrics

Darling

Really can't remember where I left my spine
Carrying my body in a bag for dimes
Hidden in the pages of the New York Times at home
And maybe I'll be better if I take my meds
Ain't a double header if you lose your head
Tried a medication that I bought instead
It's working for a little but there's not much left
Darling don't you weep
There's a place for me
Somewhere we can sleep
See you in your dreams
Ever since a little girl, I found it sweet
Driving past a graveyard on a lonesome street
All the little flowers gave me something to believe in
Never knew the feeling of a stable home
Been a couple years of living on the road
Couldn't really tell you where they'd leave a stone
To visit me when I am dead and gone
Darling don't you weep
There's a place for me
Somewhere we can sleep
See you in your dreams
Darling don't you cry
Head fast toward the light
Foolish men have tried
But only you have shown me how to love being alive
Until it's time to see the light
I'll make my own with you each night
I'll kidnap all the stars and I will keep them in your eyes
I'll wrap them up in velvet twine
And hang them from a fishing line
So I can see them any time I'd like
Darling don't you weep
There's a place for me
Somewhere we can sleep
I'll see you in your dreams
Darling don't you cry
Head fast toward the light
Foolish men have tried
But only you have shown me how to love being alive

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From If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power

3:022021
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If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Halsey
27th August 2021
Track number
7
Release year
2021
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  2. 2Bells in Santa Fe
    3:38
  3. 3Easier than Lying
    3:26
  4. 4Lilith
    2:47
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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Atticus Ross, Halsey, John Cunningham, Trent Reznor
    Lyricist
    Halsey
    Composer
    Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor
    Producer
    Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor
    Engineer
    Atticus Ross, John Hanes, Mat Mitchell, Trent Reznor
    Guitar
    Lindsey Buckingham
    Arranger
    John Cunningham
    Engineered At
    NullCo Studios
    Mastering Engineer
    Stephen Marcussen, Stewart Whitmore
    Mixing Engineer
    Șerban Ghenea
    Recording Engineer
    John Cunningham
    Sampler
    Trent Reznor
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