Working for the Knife Lyrics - Mitski

[Verse 1]

I cry at the start of every movie

I guess 'cause I wish I was making things too

But I'm working for the knife

[Verse 2]

I used to think I would tell stories

But nobody cared for the stories I had about

No good guys

[Verse 3]

I always knew the world moves on

I just didn't know it would go without me

I start the day high and it ends so low

'Cause I'm working for the knife

[Verse 4]

I used to think I'd be done by twenty

Now at twenty-nine the road ahead appears the same

Though maybe at thirty I'll see a way to change

That I'm living for the knife

[Verse 5]

I always thought the choice was mine

And I was right but I just chose wrong

I start the day lying and end with the truth

That I'm dying for the knife

Working for the Knife - Mitski

Mitski may also be on a semi-hiatus, but her presence became nonetheless strongly felt in the beyond a year. “Nobody,” her disco-tinged single off the 2018 report Be The Cowboy, became a sudden anthem for 2020: What better way to encapsulate the substantial solitude of quarantine than a track that references being so isolated and feeling so lonely, you need to open the windows simply to listen to the sounds of human beings? Save your pity; Mitski just wanted human touch so she will be able to experience okay.

We’re now at the (hopefully) tail-give up of mass isolation, nevertheless processing that solitude and grief, rebuilding ourselves as we select up the shattered pieces of what helped us experience complete inside the before times. So it appears simplest fitting to permit ourselves to be ushered into the unknown by means of having Mitski yet again voice our emotions for us. The musician marks her return with the new unmarried “Working For The Knife,” and without an album declaration yet, it’s a preview of what’s to come in her next technology.

It’s frequently joked that Mitski has the capability of making fanatics shed tears on command with her tune both through her heavily emotional lyrics and her lushly orchestrated melodies. But in “Working For The Knife,” we’re brought to a darker facet to Mitski that’s no longer meant to prompt waterworks. This Mitski doesn’t want you to weep; she wishes you to pay attention.