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Mitski

Square

Release date: 31st July 2013

From Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
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A melancholic ballad about unrequited love, 'Square' finds Mitski observing the small geometries of someone else's life, the ordered room a stand-in for an emotional distance she cannot cross. She tried to fit herself into his world, eating like his girlfriend, lying awake following the ache of wanting to belong to him. The song moves between intimate domestic detail and something larger: snow falling at night, the quiet of it, the way longing can feel both utterly private and utterly mute. What emerges is a portrait of someone trying very hard to become what another person needed, only to realise the effort itself was the problem. "God's very simple and love shouldn't burn," she sings, a line that cuts to the heart of the song's quiet devastation. She offered everything she had. He never once knew her. By the end, there is only the admission of waiting for something to earn, the recognition that she was always the one doing the work.

"Square" is a track by Mitski, from the album Retired from Sad, New Career in Business, released 31st July 2013. The track is 3:10 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Mitski.

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Lyrics

Square

Your room was square
I once noticed from there
In your bed, as you slept
And I held my breath
Everything had its own place
And I wondered what space would I take
In the order you kept
I tried to eat like your girlfriend
Just tea in the night, I'd end up
Too hungry to sleep
So lying awake
I would follow the aching inside
I would find
It's for you won't be mine
I tried my hardest, for I'd never learned
God's very simple and love shouldn't burn
And I would've offered you all that you yearned for
But I was still waiting for something to earn
What is that quiet of snow in the night?
The dark rings with white noise as you stand and drown
Maybe it's all of these snowflakes
Screaming a choir of mute
As they brace for the ground
Well, that's my ride
Hope you had a good night
You know, you made me happy
Here, shake my hand
You make such a good man
Never once did you know me
I tried my hardest, for how do you learn
God's very simple and love doesn't burn
And maybe you'd offered me all that I yearned for
But I was still waiting for something to earn
Silly me, waiting

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From Retired from Sad, New Career in Business

3:102013
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Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
Mitski
1st August 2013
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2
Release year
2013
  1. 1Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart
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  2. 2Square
    3:10
  3. 3Strawberry Blond
    1:54
  4. 4Humpty
    3:21

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