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Forever

Overkill

 

Is that you?

You aren’t what you did

I’m all cool

I’m a real tough kid

 

Welcome to the hallway, to the exit

Your story is sour when I tell it

And Charlotte says to get over it 

I hate her for what she said

Cause you’ll stay right here forever

I’ll be trapped here forever

 

Is that you?

I'd like to speak to him

Is it true?

Did I cut through too much skin

 

The weight of your body still lies next to mine

One other thing I made up in my mind

And my room has a stain from your sweat on the floor

Coming events cast their shadow before

We’ll stay right here forever

We might be here forever

x2

 

And you’ll

Take your pills

Cause you know a bad wound heals, a bad name kills

I was there 

And I knew pretty soon you would push me down the stairs

To the ground 

But you’ll follow me there, enough dirt to go around

Greatest fears

But you can’t climb out cause we don’t do that here

 

(stay right here forever)

(I’ll hate you more than ever)

 

(Stay right here forever)

Your feelings will change with the passage of time

Sit down with some girl and watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine

(I’ll hate you more than ever)

Shove all your shit in the back of the closet

I could’ve guessed it if I’m being honest

(I’ll stay right here forever)

I’ll die in the universe you said you loved me in 

Where is the boy I loved? What have you done to him?

(Hate you more than ever)

My whole family hates you, but never say never

Worst part of this love is it might be forever

Beverly

Overkill

Believe me

Oh I asked him

Asked the sun what 

I should do with all this hurting

It's a milestone

Break a backbone

It was something quite like

Grieving

Oh the feeling

 It's deceiving 

How did I ever get this far?

 

I was on your stool

Eating carrot soup

Now the pain's so deep

Hanging off of me

So Beverly

Please can you help me?

 

Grandma

Wish I knew you

'Cause I'd ask you

What to do with all this

Mending

It's a pile

Goes for miles

All the thread and blood and

Fabric

It was magic

It was tragic

Just tell me where did I go wrong?

 

Now it's way too late

And I'm at the gate

I will steal the key

watch some old TV

Beverly

You were so beautiful to me

 

'Cause it's not easy

Growing up

It's not easy being broken when you really, truly loved someone

Not easy 

It's no fun

Wish I could be four again

And play beside the foxglove

It's not easy being all alone

I don’t know how you did it

It's stupid having all this youth and not knowing how to use it

This thing is probably half my fault, I couldn’t even function 

I miss him

Beverly

 

Beverly

I miss you

Beverly

Read it and Weep

Unreleased

I want you to feel how it felt to be sickened for days

I wish you had noticed I lost the color in my face

Man of the hour?

Textbook coward to me

Now it all makes sense

How you always had something to drink

So I wrote it all down and I took a train out to the cape

A firsthand account

From the heart in my mouth

The same one that begged you to stay

 

So read it and weep

Read it and weep

You can read it and weep

 

Nobody noticed the moment attention was shifted

It was never your “art”

It was having your cake and eating it

Little miss perfect

Created a version you liked

Very convenient for someone who’d always wanted her more

(You’re a liar!)

 

I could tell the whole world your name

And warn everybody who came through your door

But that won’t take away

The cold truth that you made

You just didn’t want me anymore

(You wanted her!)

 

So read it and weep

Read it and weep

You can read it and weep

 

Oh I know that you’ll say whatever you like

In your usual state, you will tell them all lies

And I’ll have to forgive you

I’ll have to be good

A torture like watching my love turn to soot

I know you won’t come clean

That shit’s not what love means

You took what you could

Because I made it easy

Hung on your door now 

The love that you bombed at the start 

Forever deathless in art

So read it and weep

The Fool​

Unreleased

There’s little things that scare me 

You never say too much

I bet your mother told you 

You’re stronger than she was

But you’re fanning every fire in a mile's radius 

And I see it

Got a million things to tell you, but you never listen up 

And talking feels like torture 

Salt sizzling in the cut

It’s basic human rules, 

Don't act like I’m a fool 

I guess I just expected that they taught you this in school

 

I can see

See right through your eyes 

To the other side

And it’s nothing like I thought it’d be

You’ll leave me there

With my done-up hair

And you’ll say it’s fair

Of course!

You’re always in the right

And you’ll burn my ships

Say you’re over it

While you talk your shit 

Just the greatest to ever exist 

Your bags are fine, but don’t make them mine

While you’re sipping pretty sitting drinking wine 

Drinking wine 

Drinking wine

 

You never let me know you 

At least not how they do 

And love will turn to fire when they actually need you 

It's a lesson in mechanics

But overly romantic 

The walls will crack the pipes will leak

You’ll see they’re made of plastic

 

You’re hiding under blankets

Of madness and contempt

And you spend all day complaining

About things you can’t accept

On that day in late November when I went home and I wept

 

I can see you cutting corners 

I was right I was right 

Looking like you’re making a fist

what a sight, what a sight!

Laying in your bed at night

Dreaming dreams of petty fights 

I don’t even own a knife 

But I'm right, know I'm right

Beautiful Girls

Overkill

You’re all on the beach now,

and he's with you that's the story 

I guess they're flying planes now

Just to bask in all your glory

 

Comments are so low-brow 

What a dumb thing to read into 

Messages so crowded

Because everybody wants a piece of you

 

You’re just so special, baby

He'll make you dinner every night

 

That your dad is gone

'Cause he’s passed out on the lawn

No one’s ever moving on

 

What have you done to your beautiful girl,

to your beautiful girl, to your daughter honey?

What have you done to your beautiful girl,

oh, your beautiful girl, oh hell

 

Such a piece of work, watering the dirt

When the flower's grown you cut it down, you cut it down

 

I'm afraid to go to Boston

And I think about it nightly

You’ll brag about a song you didn’t write

I'll be polite

 

Just because you’re hurting doesn’t mean you have to kill me

There's a million other things that you could do

and not be cruel

 

He's so demanding lately

It makes sense why you took the bait

While you sit and smoke, 

You’ll tell an insensitive joke

And everyone will laugh

 

What have you done to your beautiful girl

to your beautiful girl, to your daughter honey?

What have you done to your beautiful girl

oh, your beautiful girl, oh hell

 

Such a piece of work, watering the dirt

When the flower's grown, you cut it down, you cut it down

 

Cut it down

Every time you see the high road

Go down, down, down

 

What have you done to your beautiful girl,

to your daughter honey?

What have you done to your beautiful girl?

Oh hell

What have you done to your beautiful girl,

to your beautiful girl, to your daughter, honey?

What have you done to your beautiful girl,

oh, your beautiful girl, oh hell 

x2

Such a piece of work, watering the dirt

When the flower's grown, you cut it down, you cut it down

Under Your Skin​

Overkill

I was really thinking

Really thinking

You were gonna leave me last night

Lying in the kitchen

In the kitchen just crying

I wrote you a letter

You could do better 

I’m killing you from the inside

But I bought you a sweater

And it fits you just right

But it’s been too quiet 

And nobody cares

I’ve only got one body 

But good people share

The tips of my fingers are covered in blood

Gotta sacrifice something

So I can be loved

The gust of the wind

A horrible sin

The mud from my mind crawling under your skin

I was barely breathing 

Barely breathing

The moment you called me a liar

My bed feels like I’m sinking

Now I’m just getting higher

It’s something in the water

Underwater

I can’t even sing anymore 

I just cleaned my room but your clothes

They’re still on the floor

 

But it’s been too quiet 

And nobody cares

I’ve only got one body 

But good people share

The tips of my fingers are covered in mud 

Gotta sacrifice something

So I can be loved

The gust of the wind

A horrible sin

The mud from my mind crawling under your skin

I thought maybe in the morning it would be all right

one cannot love and be wise

 

Do you think about me when you see it now?

the prettiest blue for your eyes 

But it’s been too quiet 

And nobody cares

I’ve only got one body 

But good people share

The tips of my fingers are covered in mud 

Gotta sacrifice something

So I can be loved

 

The gust of the wind

A horrible sin

The mud from my mind crawling under your skin

Teeth​

Overkill

aren't you a real good man?

Aren't you a stand-up guy?

Captain of the ship and expert in comforting lies

I got a crush again

He had a summer job

Does his own laundry too

Different than you

He's not a snob

Thank god

He's not like you

I know I was addicted to the smoke you blew

I know you

So shut your mouth

Find someone else

To sink your teeth into

I like to go outside

You always kept me in

Maybe you'll change for her

Here's to pointless hoping

I've heard some scary things

Your rejects said you did

We're lying on the beach as you try to un-sink your ship

Thank god

He's not like you

I know I was addicted to the smoke you blew

I know you

So shut your mouth

Find someone else

To sink your teeth into

To sink your teeth into

To sink your teeth into

She loves you

You're in shambles

He loves me, has good examples

Shot it dead, she's crying now

You can't stop

You don't know how

Fucking awful

Manic eyes

I hope you drink until you die

Liver damage

Broken home

I could save her, but I won't

She won't believe me

Never believed me

And never will

Thank god

He's not like you

I know I was addicted to the smoke you blew

I know you

So shut your mouth

Find someone else

To sink your teeth into

(To sink your teeth into)

To sink your teeth into

(To sink your teeth into)

To sink your teeth into

(To sink your teeth into)

To sink your teeth into

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