Artist: Chicago Nobody
Title: kill your darlings
Genre(s): Garage House, Trap-Pop
Length: 3:14
Writers: C. De Marco (Chicago Nobody)
Producer: Chicago Nobody
Label: Independent
From The Album: filth and dreams
Kill Your Darlings (stylized as kill your darlings) is a song recorded by Italian-American singer-songwriter and producer Chicago Nobody. It serves as the opening track for his debut album
filth and dreams as well as his second single release. The track was written, arranged, mixed and produced entirely by Chicago Nobody himself.
kill your darlings can be classed as a garage house and trap-pop song, using a heavy bass, finger-snaps and a kick-drum. The song essentially consists of "two parts" with the beginning having a moderately fast tempo and falling into the dance and garage house category while the ending of the song switches to a slower tempo, utilizing more trap inspired elements. The song has been described as "tongue-in-cheek" by Chicago Nobody and states that is "an extreme case of burying your head in the sand". The lyrics reference his studies at university, the toll that the workload is taking on his mental health and bank balance, and his burning desire to escape it all.
"I feel like "kill your darlings" was the perfect way to open the album. It encompasses a lot of what I touch on throughout the record and sets the scene for where I was at the time of making this album and what I was using for inspiration. It's all very tongue-in-cheek, of course. I'm not telling every single student to forget about their degrees and their courses but it's an embellished story of how I feel at times. Sometimes you don't want to work yourself until you're run into the ground. Sometimes you don't want to deal with the severe pressures put on you. Sometimes you don't want to stress out over that looming assignment and the future. Sometimes you just want to tune out and live in the now. I found myself feeling extremely low due to expectations, deadlines and pressures. It almost felt like it wasn't worth it anymore. I wanted to create a song about that burning desire for a great escape. It's an extreme case of burying your head in the sand and allows people to vicariously live that out."
- kill your darlings -Cheap champagne spilling down our designer clothes
Spending our last lonely dollars on that Uber home
Got a good while before I have to pay off that loan
Right now is all that matters
Early start, might as well stay up and see it through
Cold in here, can I squeeze in and lay with you?
Put the world to rights with our fairy tale rule
Fix anything but our own disasters
Brush your hair and keep your head on straight
Isn't that the type of shit the parents say?
But you know what happens when the cat's away
I worked last night so now it's time for play
All these dreams and papers I've been amassing
Have got my silly little twisted head pounding
Too many hopes on my plate yet I'm still starving
Fuck priorities, it's time to kill my darlings
Uh, yeah
Want liberation? Kill your darlings
If you really love them, kill your darlings
Dutch courage should help with the parting
Come with me and kill your darlings
Expectations throw me up then drop me to my knees
So incessant, I no longer feel it when I bleed
Trapped inside a cycle in the land of the free
Am I sounding like a pessimist?
Are you coming out tonight to bathe in the afterglow?
Don't worry about the cash, I can beg, steal and borrow
Our bright lights have been dimmed by the shadows
Emancipate, this is an exodus
Brush your hair and keep your head on straight
Isn't that the type of shit the parents say?
But you know what happens when the cat's away
I worked last night so now it's time for play
All these dreams and papers I've been amassing
Have got my silly little twisted head pounding
Too many hopes on my plate yet I'm still starving
Fuck priorities, it's time to kill my darlings
Uh, yeah
Want liberation? Kill your darlings
If you really love them, kill your darlings
Dutch courage should help with the parting
Come with me and kill your darlings
On the edge of seventeen, I had many aspirations
(Kill your darlings)
As reality settled in, it took a toll on my patience
(Kill your darlings)
No matter what train I'm on, never know it's destination
(Kill your darlings)
At the end of the day, it's only my time I'm wasting
(Kill your darlings)
Uh, yeah
Want liberation? Kill your darlings
If you really love them, kill your darlings
Dutch courage should help with the parting
Come with me and kill your darlings
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