Mitski - I Guess (Official Audio)

"I Guess" from the album Laurel Hell by Mitski.

Laurel Hell out now.

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We out now.

Lyrics:
I guess, I guess
I guess this is the end
I’ll have to learn
To be somebody else

It’s been you and me
Since before I was me
Without you I don’t yet know
Quite how to live

If I could keep
Anything of you
I would keep
Just this quiet after you

It’s still as a pond
I am staring into
From here I can say
Thank you
From here I can tell you
Thank you

#Mitski #IGuess #LaurelHell

[thesilliestgirl]

just sobbed to this song. shaking and crying and gasping and heartbroken and flying up to my ceiling. who would have known mitski created feeling.

[leia-uebu]

this is undeniably my favorite off the album. for the last two years i've been so depressed to the point i had no idea who i was anymore, but there was one person who was always there to make me feel like life was still worth sustaining. the way i felt for him was nothing shy of delusional, dangerous even, so i can't say i love him, but from the bottom of my heart i thank him. i am now feeling good, my mental health is absolutely better, and i hate to say it, but i don't need the person anymore. "if i could keep anything of you, it would be just this quiet after you." I'm grateful, but it's time to move on and learn to love myself and my life for myself, and not for someone else. thank you, mitski. you put my long buried emotions into music and into words... i love you so much. <3

[papillonminaj]

"I'll have to learn, to be somebody else" OMG THAT HURT SO MUCH LOVE U MITSKI

[bombompurin]

gripping my bed sheets, gasping for air, grabbing the air god this song is so good

[lunajsu]

this song feels like a comfort today especially when the weather is so gloomy out, wish i could cry but the tears wont drop

[knfives]

i listened to this song in the car with my mom for the first time. she passed the next day. she was my best friend and im so happy i got to have a moment to connect with her through this song before she let go.

[emilia-qvuv]

[Verse 1]
I guess, I guess
I guess this is the end
I'll have to learn to be somebody else
It’s been you and me since before I was me
Without you, I don't yet know quite how to live

[Verse 2]
If I could keep anything of you
I would keep just this quiet after you
It's still as a pond I am staring into
From here, I can say: “Thank you”
From here, I can tell you: “Thank you”

[juliacaster]

Grieving a very unhealthy relationship that had true love at the core. This song is perfect. Thank you Mitski.

[amyainsy]

Listening to this song really helped me move on from a past friendship. My childhood best friend of 11 years suddenly started to distance themselves from me, turns out they were making fun of me behind my back, going as far as to make jokes about the fact I have to use a wheelchair. Once I found out about that, I was in a state of shock and disbelief. We have grown up together and they helped shape who am I today, it made me feel like a chunk of myself was ripped out. At first, I decided to block out all of the memories we had together as it hurt to much to think about. I started to think that maybe our friendship was never real, but it was. And it will forever be real to me because of all the good times we had. Of course I wished we had ended on a better foot, but I know that I have fully accepted that people change, but that doesn't mean the relationship we had before was fake. So all I have to say to them, is thank you, for all the years of our friendship. And now, all these days I spent feeling sad and sick, I suddenly feel...calm. I can finally move on. And I think this song fully encapsulates this feeling.

[Kitty-mocl]

mitski didn’t make this the ending track because she knew it would’ve fucking killed us

[souichitsujii]

Laurel Hell is really underrated, thank you Mitski, this is a real piece of art.

[meen]

one way this can be interpreted is from the point of view of an artist having to move on from creating art because they can no longer sustain a living with just that. "Without you I don’t yet know quite how to live", how we all have to sometimes give up a part of ourselves or our dreams for the more "practical" world and it can seem so scary and pointless to live without this thing that we considered an extension of ourselves rather than just a 'hobby' . "From here I can tell you, Thank you" because who knows where we would be if it weren't for the different ways that we can express our love and anguish through art or music or literature or anything else for that matter...

[friedsocks]

to me this feels like growing up and looking back at who i was as a child in the midst of heavy growing pains and mistakes. and instead of hatred and frustration like i used to have, analyzing all her faults, i'm finally starting to understand: finally being able to see her for how much she tried, how much she was still learning and how she was still a kid. even if i have regrets i wouldn't change the hard parts, i just want to hug her and caress her head and know she's given me the ability to be who i am. i love this song and i love you mitski it's so pretty and has two slow dancers vibes in the most beautiful way :( <3💐

[ebaniev]

Crying, shaking, combusting, throwing up, screaming, yelling, yearning, ascending, god I love mitski

[emma]

I graduated high school yesterday and I had no friends to say goodbye to. This song hit me like a brick because it reminds me of my childhood self who quite literally kept me alive, who I love dearly, but have hatred for because her survival instincts burden me. Because of her, I lost the ability to make friends and I avoid everyone.

[Mwriggles]

This song sounds like acceptance that things and that special person have moved on. Yet, part of you remains longing for things to go back to how they once were and perhaps it always will.

[origamiant]

it's been you and me since before i was me
without you i don't yet quite know how to live

this has stained my spirit

[watertribeskye]

Something about this instrumental touches me so deeply

[ewlexis]

this song makes me think of both of my grandparents who have passed away. literally crying but this song is so comforting

[interestingishfae]

This one is my absolute favorite off the album. I think the sounds and everything really represents that quiet. It’s a since of sadness yet appreciation