Humpty
Mitski * Track #4 On Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
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Humpty by Mitski
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MitskiProduced by
Trevor Fedele & Patrick HylandWrited by
MitskiAbout
Eggshells feature prominently as a metaphor for frailty and vulnerability in “Humpty”, whose title and coda allude to English nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty. Mitski spends this track figuratively tiptoeing around predicted problems in the manner of idiomatic phrase “walking on eggshells”, afr...
Humpty Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'll live in the bathtub
It's cool and clean
It's smooth and it's steady
It's all that I need
I broke our belongings
They're all on the floor
The room is now empty
Nothing left to throw
[Chorus]
All the eggshells are on the ground
And I try, I'm trying to pick them up
But they crack and crumble, it's all too much
Too frail for me to touch
All the eggshells are on the ground
And I try, I'm trying to pick them up
But they crack and crumble, it's all too much
Too frail for me to touch
[Verse 2]
I'll live in the bathtub
Surrounded by tiles
All so square and so steady
I will die in their cool, cool arms
I broke what you gave me
But you kept giving more
And I'm sorry for taking
But I keep wanting more, more, more, oh
[Chorus]
All the eggshells are on the ground
And I try, I'm trying to pick them up
But they crack and crumble, it's all too much
Too frail for me to touch
All the eggshells are on the ground
And I try, I'm trying to pick them up
But, Humpty Dumpty, you're much too much
Too frail for me to touch
[Outro]
Humpty Dumpty, it's much too much
All the eggshells are on the ground
Humpty Q&A
Who wrote Humpty's ?
Humpty was written by Mitski.
Who produced Humpty's ?
Humpty was produced by Trevor Fedele & Patrick Hyland.