“watch” describes Billie’s perspective of unrequited love as she can’t grasp why she isn’t with the one she wants to be with.
This second single off of Billie’s debut EP was released on June 30, 2017. The track’s music video was released on September 18, 2017.
The video features girls dressed in e...
[Verse 1]
Lips meet teeth and tongue
My heart skips eight beats at once
If we were meant to be, we would have been by now
See what you wanna see, but all I see is him right now
[Chorus]
I'll sit and watch your car burn
With the fire that you started in me
But you never came back to ask it out
Go ahead and watch my heart burn
With the fire that you started in me
But I'll never let you back to put it out
[Verse 2]
Your love feels so fake
And my demands aren't high to make
If I could get to sleep, I would have slept by now
Your lies will never keep, I think you need to blow 'em out
[Chorus]
I'll sit and watch your car burn
With the fire that you started in me
But you never came back to ask it out
Go ahead and watch my heart burn
With the fire that you started in me
But I'll never let you back to put it out
[Bridge]
When you call my name
Do you think I'll come runnin'?
You never did the same
So good at givin' me nothin'
When you close your eyes, do you picture me?
When you fantasize, am I your fantasy?
Now you know
Now I'm free
[Chorus]
I'll sit and watch your car burn
With the fire that you started in me
But you never came back to ask it out
Watch my heart burn
With the fire that you started in me
But I'll never let you back to put it out
[Outro]
Ooh, never let you back
Let you back, let you back
Never gonna let you back
Let you back
watch was written by FINNEAS.
watch was produced by FINNEAS.
Billie Eilish released watch on Fri Jun 30 2017.
Eilish clarified the video’s meaning in an interview with interview with Noisey, saying;
Our director, Megan [Park], had some ideas, and she came up with the wax [bed]room idea… I’m sitting [in a bedroom], but it looks like the room is melting. The idea is that, at the end of the video, you see tha...
In an interview with noisey.vice.com, Eilish clarified the song’s meaning, saying;
Like, in a relationship, you’re not just in a relationship with that person—you’re in a relationship with that person being in a relationship with you. And you have to have a relationship with yourself to understand...