Daughter - Landfill

Lyrics:

Throw me in the landfill
Don't think about the consequences
Throw me in the dirt pit
Don't think about the choices that you make
Throw me in the water
Don't think about the splash I will create
Leave me at the altar
Knowing all the things you just escaped

Push me out to sea
On the little boat that you made
Out of the evergreen
That you helped your father cut away
Leave me on the tracks
To wait until the morning train arrives
Don't you dare look back
Walk away, catch up with the sunrise

'cause this is torturous
Electricity between both of us
And this is dangerous
'cause I want you so much
But I hate your guts
I hate you

So leave me in the cold
Wait until the snow covers me up
So I cannot move
So I'm just embedded in the frost
Then leave me in the rain
Wait until my clothes cling to my frame
Wipe away your tear stains
Thought you said you didn't feel pain

Well this is torturous
Electricity between both of us
And this is dangerous
'cause I want you so much
But I hate your guts

I want you so much
But I hate your guts

Well this is torturous
Electricity between both of us
And this is dangerous
'cause I want you so much
But I hate your guts

I want you so much
But I hate your guts

I do not own the music or the pictures included in this video. Those things belong to cooler, far superior people, like Daughter.

[bubblegum]

Daughter has such a talent for describing pain so beautifully.

[luizaanyway]

I cant figure it out. How is she doing this. The words, the emotions everything. Every single word is killing me and making me feel alive in the same time. I just cant... Daughter is throwing all the emotions of every happy/sad moment, period in music. Well this is music. It's healing and killing the soul.

[scarax]

people in the comment section of daughter are the kindest, probably because they know what pain is and how heavy their own heart can get.

[badcosmonaut]

I'm a guy and this song always hammers me when it comes on. I can't actually relate to what she's feeling, but the way she sings almost acts as a temporary bridge to her perspective.

[KokkieSmilez]

This is so relatable it hurts. When you know you'll get hurt, but cannot stop yourself from wanting that person so bad. You know you shouldn't, for everything they've already done to you. But it's there, that excruciating feeling of desire and intense emotion towards them. It's a static electricity that you can feel in your bones. And it fucks you up, this discrepancy between heart and mind. You know you shouldn't want them, but your heart wants what it wants. That person could do anything to you, and you'd probably still have a weak spot for them. And maybe you always will.

[sarsafaty]

If you read the lyrics of Candles and the ones of Landfill you'll see there are two messages that are distinctively different, opposing and even contradictory to each other. The voice is the same but it seems the narrator is different. In Candles we see a vulnerable, weak, defenceless and indecisive person who is led by the will of her lover. In Landfill she is in control, she tells him what to do. She clearly understands her feelings and her situation, she's sad but in a profound and realized way. She knows what the consequences of her words may be. And she knows where to draw the line. I definitely prefer the woman I hear in this song.

[JustBboying]

Daughter's songs are like random thoughts in my head. Those thoughts don't usually come but when they appear in my head, they appear very suddenly and they keep coming and coming, softly and elusively. And Daughter's songs are just like that. I don't always feel like wanting to listen to their songs, but when I do, I just keep playing their songs and let myself immerse into those soft melodies until I go to sleep or I realize it's time I have to do smt.

[laurenbaker]

Daughter always makes her music so relatable. The lyrics and the melody is created with such thought.

[josanne]

"leave me at the altar, knowing all the things you just escaped"
The most powerful lyric I've ever heard in my life

[browneyesblackdragon]

She sings the saddest shit. My God, who hurt you? 😓
love her songs though.

[phantom]

it's beautiful how she is lyrically able to give the words a special meaning <3
just so beautiful..

[Emma-vsqn]

It's 5am and I am just listening to Daughter songs and crying...

[Ayan]

I keep myself busy. But my past haunts me every now and then. It reminds me of how people let me go and how my heart still remembers all the warmth and the ache and how I feel so alone and lack of love now whenever I look in the mirror. But I keep myself busy, very busy and try not to think about it. But every once in a while it comes and pours sadness all over me, and I'm drenched.

[jas]

still checking out this song now and then, in spring, 2023....this voice and the timbre of that drum are such an embrace of my heart and soul.

such beauty from such sadness....wow

"leave me on the tracks/to wait until the morning train

[TheKarmaPaymentPlan]

I love Elena's voice more than I could ever convey with words. And the music... It is simply enchanting. Unlike some people on here I'm glad Daughter is receiving more recognition... Talent like this deserves to be seen, heard, and appreciated. I love Daughter <3

[gabriellapiazzaumberger]

If artists could be emotions, I'd be always feeling kind of.... Daughter :\

[reneehenderson]

This is one of my favorite songs. It's beautiful

[Slayinginthespirit]

i love that anyone in some way or another can relate to the sadness that Daughter uses to make their music

[madidenton]

This is definitely my favorite by Daughter. I love how all of their songs are so beautifully written. 

[meghanto]

I'm a guy.
Every word is like hard slaps and sweet comfort mixed in some ungodly manner.