Lyrics © DNJL 2026. All rights reserved. [Intro - spoken, hushed] Keep what you love… or cut it clean. (…which one keeps you breathing?) [Chorus] Kill your darlings (darling, don’t delay) Soft and sudden (slip it all away) Silk to silence (shiver, sever, stay) Pretty problems (push them in the gray) Kill your darlings (d-dark, don’t say) Cold compliance (cut and drift away) [Verse 1] Velvet voices in a vacant room Silver secrets singing like a wound Tender teeth on something sweet and doomed (Lick the lie, let it bloom… bloom…) Crimson comfort curling in my chest Hold it holy, hold it like a test If it hurts then maybe it’s the best (Or a mess… or a mess…) [Pre-Chorus] Say it slow, say it soft, say it twice “Love is loss, love is loss,” pay the price Hands shake, hearts break, halo or knife? (…choose your vice…) [Chorus] Kill your darlings (darling, don’t delay) Soft and sudden (slip it all away) Silk to silence (shiver, sever, stay) Pretty problems (push them in the gray) Kill your darlings (d-dark, don’t say) Cold compliance (cut and drift away) [Verse 2] Paper petals pressed between my teeth Sugar-coated sorrow underneath Kiss it kindly, keep it incomplete (Keep it neat… delete… repeat…) Mirror murmurs, “make it disappear” Love it louder just to lose it here Every echo edging into fear (Do you hear… me here?) [Pre-Chorus] Count it down, count it out, count to none “Mercy melts, mercy melts,” what’s begun Clean cut, quick hush, are we undone? (…or just done…) [Final Chorus - extended] Kill your darlings (darling, don’t delay) Soft and sudden (slip it all away) Silk to silence (shiver, sever, stay) Pretty problems (push them in the gray) Kill your darlings (d-dark, don’t say) Cold compliance (cut and drift away) Blur the border (black or bouquet?) (…either way…) Kill your darlings (hush, obey) Feathered feelings fade to fray Sweet surrender, sharp ballet (spin and sway… fade to gray…) Kill your darlings (whispered, “stay…”) (…or stray…) (::silence::)
