Philip Labes - Never Date A Writer lyrics

There's a version of you in somebody's head
Sayin' mean things that you never said
Cool and unusual dummy by design
Not filled up with somebody else's lines

Nothing you do, nothing you say
Could ever make them view you in another way
They get the worst, most toxic part of you
And that's the part they talk to

Never date a writer, never be a muse
Everything is copied
Every trauma gets reused
They'll control the narrativе
They'll feel misunderstood
Nevеr date a writer
Especially if they're good

Everybody wants to own the goodbye
Everybody wants to be right
So if you don't look like the good guy
Put the story down in black and white
And you write and you
Write 'till you're right

Blood on the page and the ink's still wet
And they don't forgive and
They don't forget
They only remember the worst of you
The facts are wrong, but it still feels true

Never date a writer
They're not trying to be mean
But you'll end up an index card
On the corkboard of their dream
Sure, when you're together
Things will feel just fine
But you were not together
You were researched the whole time

Everybody wants to own the goodbye
Everybody wants to be right
So if you don't look like the good guy
Put the story down in black and white
And you write and you
Write 'till you're right

It's your right to work through
Your life with your art
But I've heard every word
Tear us further apart
And the more we put it down in lines
The more the facts get blurred
We don't want love, we want the last word
So you read the book or you see the play
And you see yourself in the words they say
They stole your breath and
They made their art
And they wrote their truth and
They broke your heart

So never date a writer, and I'm a writer too
I'll wring you out for feelings
'cuz that's just what I do
Sharin' all my troubles for
Followers and cash
The pain ends up in print and
The truth goes in the trash

Everybody wants to own the goodbye
Everybody wants to be right
So if you don't look like the good guy
Put the story down in black and white
And you write and you
Write 'till you're right

Everybody wants to own the goodbye
Everybody wants to be right
So if you don't look like the good guy
Put the story down in black and white
You write and you write, and
You write and you write
And you write and you
Write 'till you're right