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Destroyer by Ruel

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Ruel

Destroyer

Release date: 16th October 2025

From Kicking My Feet
Track 6
3:08
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About This Track

'Destroyer' by Ruel is a 2025 pop track from the album 'Kicking My Feet'. The lyrics stage a bitter breakdown of responsibility, where a plea for survival slides into guilt and retaliation, with the narrator insisting they cannot hide behind self defence. A line like “the blood was on my hands” captures the bluntness of the accusation, even as the song frames the speaker as trapped in a limbo of impossible choices. It’s a tense, confessional argument about blame, motive, and the damage left when one person walks away and another is left to live with it.

"Destroyer" is a track by Ruel, from the album Kicking My Feet, released 16th October 2025. The track is 3:08 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Ruel.

About the Artist

Ruel

Ruel

Lyrics

Destroyer

You said you needed water
So I built the house on sand
But when it sank into the ocean
The blood was on my hands
You left me in a limbo
A catch 22
Saving my own life
Made me the murderer of you

But I know
I can't claim it as just self-defense
Protecting the illusion of my permanent innocence
Because who's guilty is besides the point
It has to be me
I have to be

Your destroyer
I don't wanna, but I have to be
Your destroyer
I don't wanna, but I have to be
Your destroyer
Oh I have to be

The villain of the movie
Just a victim of the times
You dress me up and use me
To fit the story you designed
Oh, I yearned for your approval
'Til I didn't recognize me either
Two tickets for a funeral when you
Blow up the hand that feeds ya

Oh, I can't claim it as just self-defense
Protecting the illusion of my permanent innocence
Because who's guilty is besides the point
It has to be me
I have to be

Your destroyer
I don't wanna, but I have to be
Your destroyer
I don't wanna, but I have to be
Your destroyer
Oh, I have to be
Your destroyer

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Track details

From Kicking My Feet

3:082025
Listen
Album
Kicking My Feet
Kicking My Feet
Ruel
17th October 2025
Track number
6
Release year
2025
  1. 1Only Ever
    2:32
  2. 2Wild Guess
    2:47
  3. 3When You Walk In The Room
    1:59
  4. 4I Can Die Now
    2:51

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  • 11dst (outro)
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Dan Wilson, Kenny Beats, Ruel
    Producer
    Kenny Beats
    Drums
    Max Bassin
    Guitar
    Dan Wilson, Kenny Beats
    Mastering Engineer
    Nathan Dantzler
    Mixing Engineer
    Alex Ghenea
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