Never Date A Writer

There's a version of you in somebody's head

Saying mean things that you never said

Cruel and unusual dummy by design

Mouth filled up with somebody else's lines

Nothing you do, nothing you say

Could ever make them view you in another way

They kept the worst most toxic part of you

And that's the part they talk to

Never date a writer, never be a muse

Everything is copy, every trauma gets reused

They'll control the narrative, you'll feel misunderstood

Never date a writer, especially if they're good

Everybody wants to own the goodbye, everybody wants to be right

So if you don't look like the good guy, put the story down in black and white

And you write and you write 'til your right

Blood on the page and the ink's still wet

And they don't forgive and they don't forget

They only remember the worst of you

The facts are wrong but it still feels true

Never date a writer, they're not trying to be mean

But you'll end up an index card on the corkboard of their dream

Sure when you're together, things will feel just fine

But you were not together, you were research the whole time

Everybody wants to own the good-bye, everybody wants to be right

So if you don't look like the good guy, put the story down in black and white

And you write and you write 'til your right

It's your right to work through your life with your art

But I've heard every word pull us further apart

And the more we put it down in lines, the more the facts get blurred

We don't want love, we want the last word

So you read the book or you see the play

And you see yourself in the words they say

They stole your breath and they made their art

And they wrote their truth and they broke your heart

So never date a writer, and I'm a writer too

I'll wring you out for feelings, 'cause that's just what I do

Sharing all my troubles, for followers and cash

The pain end up in print, and the truth goes in the trash

Everybody wants to own the good-bye, everybody wants to be right