Mitski - Last Words Of A Shooting Star Lyrics

when i first heard this song I wasn't really listening to the lyrics but now that I'm actually processing them I want to cry bc heck this song is sad

this song is weirdly nostalgic

My mom died three days ago, can't tell how visceral this and Class of 2013 feel right now. She left looking like sleeping beauty. I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted.

i feel like this song is my soul distilled. thank you mitski <3

TW, when I get bad intrusive thoughts about s*lf h*rm n etc, I just play this in my head as hard as I can n sing carefully I’m going to live and it honestly really helps

I feel like shit #natalieportman

this song is truly full of heart ❤

A good friend recommended this to me

I feel like I know exactly what it’s about and honestly would like the same fate. It just hurts so much. This song is just so painful to listen to and so beautiful at the same time.

DOES THIS HAVE RAIN? i just noticed!! i cant believe i never noticed!

The intro is almost identical to “Take Me Somewhere Nice” by Mogwai

Drinkclintons funny since both this song and that one decimate me emotionally

this song brings out the dark in everyone

reminds me of some of the more somber, haunting songs of the 70's

the noise at the end sends literal chills down my spine

Feeling relieved on the verge of dying is not a good sign huh ?

don't listen to this after listening to my body is made of crushed little stars........u get too sad

I honestly think the part where she’s talking about lovers is her referring to herself.

“You wouldn’t leave till we loved in the morning.”
The depression can’t go away until they learn to love/accept themselves.
“You’ve learned from movies what love’s ought to be.”
She has no idea how to begin loving herself. TV and movies says to buy yourself presents and go on nice vacations, maybe that’s why she’s on a plane?


“So you’ll say you love me and look in my eyes but I know, through mine you were looking in yours.”
She’s trying the “fake it till you make it” everyone always recommends. But, unfortunately, she can see through her own lie (eyes are the windows to the soul and what not.)

But that’s just my own theory. Maybe I’m projecting

The start reminds me of take me somewhere nice from mogwai

The end sounds like a plane going down as it's crashing. :(

i love this song

Sounds like it's about someone going through depression and having suicidal thoughts (but a small part of them doesn't actually want to die), while having a lover who is only helping them with their struggles because it makes them feel better about themselves.

Edit: Forgot to mention she dies anyways because her mental illness got worse, even though she occasionally had hopes of getting better.

I don't think she dies, I think she wished she did. Like you wish on a shooting star. In this case, its turbulence and she wishes it would crash. People forget how scary suicide can be even to suicidal people, I think that if she died on the plane, it would take that stress away as its already out of her control. And I think the "blood sniffing shark" line is about self harming...woah..

I hadn't thought about that. Thank you

That’s a really interesting take. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you ma'am

I feel like this song is about being too caught up in tragedy and heartbreak to realize the end is near until right before it comes. To think that there were so many things you couldn’t do, so many hearts you couldn’t touch, so many people you couldn’t know, but you will accept the ending and go with a “clean and tidy” happily ever after. This song, to me, is about acceptance of not being able to do as much as you want to and that life will always throw you into the worst places. The least you could do is make your ever after happy.

I like listening to this song on airplanes. It's so calm in this morbid way, it really suits the mood of travelling inside a winged metal tube for hours :)

I adore this song, it's a song to listen to whenever your sad, mad, happy, indifferent or at all.

They'll never know how I'd stared at the dark in that room
With no thoughts
Like a blood-sniffing shark


that line hit me like a ton of bricks first time i heard it.

Henry York I honestly think that that lyric perfectly describes how depression is, especially when you’re alone in your room at night

Bro same and I just listened to it like 10 minutes ago

This whole song has lyrics like that for me. “You’d say you loved me and look in my eyes, but I know through mine you were looking in yours” I thought about that one for a long time. “did you know the liberty bell is a replica silently housed in its original walls” it’s all so fucking depressing knowing what they mean, as people with mental illnesses or those who’ve fallen in love with the wrong ones. It’s a song that speaks to many through strong words

honestly this sounds fake and gay but if im being truly honest, mitski really helped me through my life. ive been dealing with some shit in my life, man, and panic attack upon panic attack, and just now after another freak out i turned on mitski and suddenly i felt at peace. like the world stopped and i could finally breathe. i closed my eyes and for once i felt happy. as i type this tears of relief fall from my cheeks as i can finally feel at home. i can finally feel okay. so thanks, if you read this. having to deal with my emotional bullshit. if you are, in fact, reading this though, please dont ever fuck up someones life. consider. love. sounds cheesy but it doesnt take a villain to make someone feel completely lost. go out there and love your friends.

i love you. also "this sounds fake and gay" is my life in a nutshell.

Yes. Fake and gay or real and straight, I think that telling your story is nice. Kudos to you, stranger.

Btw Mitski is still helping me through shit so yayy

thank you, nagito komaeda

this song is powerful

This song makes me want to end it all.

I hope you’re okay

I think that this is about someone who wants to die, but is afraid or has people who depend on them ( like an ill family member or children), The person ends up dying in a plane crash ( "all of this turbulence wasn't fore-casted", this is most likely the pilot announcing to the passengers unforeseen weather) and the song is taking place before the crash, or before the plane enters a storm, and they are "relived "that they can die without having to commit suicide.

Tuna_Fish It’s like that one quote from Fight Club. He wishes the plane would crash and they’d all die because he wouldn’t have to work anymore and there’d be an insurance payout

Simplest interpretation: her lover is seeing someone else when they "love" her and goes through the motions. This is obvious to her and she feels that every interaction is them asking her to be this person.

Galaxy Brain interpretation: she personifies every personal struggle she has to go through into a lover and her lover asks her to be a stronger person. she doesn't know if she can be that, so she wants to abandon those struggles and life entirely

this song hurts so much, i wanna keep listening to it but i wanna stop and i have this pit in my stomach but i don’t know what it means

ugh her MIND
she's so beautiful

Its pretty objectifying to refer to a woman as beautiful when she did not mean to be. I think you meant intelligent or brilliant instead.

@ren berisha beautiful is a compliment. Beauty is not pretty, its beauty. Dont get the two mixed up. I just dont see it the way you do

@ren berisha it's not even a compliment to me, its acknowledgement, its outside of a box

the last words of ashara dayne

oh fuck don't do this to me

money please may i hav some moneeeyy

Nice job

彼女はとても美しい
彼女の声は私に幸せと悲しさを感じさせる。カッコイイです❤️

Is this song about the challenger tragedy

Wow i wanna fucking die more now :)

I'm kinda glad she's not mainstream because we don't have to deal with the annoying fangirls. And we can just enjoy her music in peace. This song makes me think of so many scenarios to write when I'm alone too. Thanks Mitski ♥️

this song makes me a mess

I think this song is about a suicidal person dying in an accident (specifically plane crash) instead of taking her life herself.

I don't think she dies, I just think she wanted to. Like you wish on a shooting star like she wishes to die on the plane. I can imagine suicide is a scary thing, dying in a plane crash would take the fear away as it's out of her control.

This song honestly triggered something inside me. I never wanted to kill myself per-say (even if I thought about it). Hearing this song and feeling the resonance, I realized I wished something lethal would happen. When I got sick, I felt an overwhelming relief and never understood why...

My take on the song is that she experiences some form of disturbance while flying on the plane which relieves her as she thinks she is going to die. The song is her preparing her thoughts while welcoming death and having flashbacks on her reasons for suicide. She would have killed herself sooner had it not been for her busy life, so the turbulence is very convenient and she actually thanks it.

@xXAzureAngelXx does she really kiss her depression away? Not claiming your assumption is wrong, but there's very little evidence to support it. However, evidence to support the character saying goodbye to everyone, everything- the world, after experiencing a shake up on the plane and convincing herself she will die is eminent.

@Natalie Ngonela that's why I'd say music in the end is left for us the lisener to interpret. Some people feel something else from the song's somber mood at that time I felt like she was letting her depression go ,but now as I have gone through my life stumbling back into depression as most do I think of it now as a roller coaster for her the ride is really bumpy sometimes its calm and others you think the rails will break and you go flying off into the deep end and I think the song is accepting depression as a part of the ride now.

Not to be blunt, but this song is about death (specifically suicide), is that correct? If not, does anyone know what it is about?

morgan messner no yea u got it

morgan messner I feel like it’s about a plane crash, but like a suicidal person in a plane crash

She was gonna kill herself "but I'd be too busy on working days" she's basically happy she's dying in a plane accident instead of having to kill herself because "I couldn't have changed anyways"

this fits perfectly with texas reznikoff
this album is a circle
i feel stupid that i’ve just realized this

yup, also the chords are nearly identical

'did you know the liberty bell is a replica silently housed in its original walls' is the simplest and yet the single most devastating lyric ever written

@beline The liberty bell was originally too weak to handle being rung and so it cracked. They then recasted it into its same shape but with stronger materials. But even then it once again cracked. This could be interpreted as a metaphor for a lot of things e.g. feeling forced to be something/someone you can't, the idea that you flaws will always follow you no matter what, or even just feeling like a fraud or impostor.

also i forgot to metion that the liberty bell is an iconic american symbol of a freedom, so comparing its existence to being trapped is a brilliant use of irony.

@Pats thank you for the explanations! :)

@beline I would interpret it as someone who pretends to be the same on the outside but is dead in the inside. Someone who acts alright for all to see but secretly harbours their changed identity on the inside. A common trait for those who suffer mental illnesses such as depression. The character in the song does mention going through periods of depression, "they'll never know how I stood in the dark in that room, with no thoughts, like a blood-sniffin' shark" and so it would be fitting to make this assumption on the meaning.

'And while its dreams played music in the night. Quietly. It was told to believe'

This is even sad.

I saw in the description saying that this was released on 11/11 and now I'm about to theorize a shit ton of spiritual conspiracy trash, so just leave me here before you actually pity me and listen to me.

wait what is your theory i am curious now lmao

This is about a airplane crash right?

Partially

That, and suicide

It’s about whatever you want it to be

what made you come to that conclusion im curious

mitski just brings out the emotion in everyone...

ive cried and masturbated to this song. ive screamed with it playing in the background. we've been through a lot together.

Why would you do that

@Sowsan Amer o h y a l l h a v e a p r e f e r e n c e n o w

kinda sad yall never had a cry wank before smh ,

@dollieteeth #nofap

@softie crank

I had the urge to listen

Is it fucked up that songs like this make me enjoy my own sadness? Like just sitting in this beautiful melancholy, letting equal parts despair and contentment fill me up. I get the same feels from early Modest Mouse.

We literally listen to the same music i love anime ost and shit

shattmanta this is so accurate. Some of modest mouse and Elliot smith totally always give me that quiet contentment in its own sad way.

your name shat

All of this turbulence wasn't forecasted
Apologies from the intercom
And I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
They'll think of me kindly
When they come for my things

They'll never know how I'd stared at the dark in that room
With no thoughts
Like a blood-sniffing shark
And while my dreams made music in the night
Carefully
I was going to live

You wouldn't leave till we loved in the morning
You'd learned from movies how love ought to be
And you'd say you love me and look in my eyes
But I know through mine you were
Looking in yours

And did you know the liberty bell is a replica
Silently housed in its original walls
And while its dreams played music in the night
Quietly
It was told to believe

I always wanted to die clean and pretty
But I'd be too busy on working days
So I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted
I couldn't have changed anyways

I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
Goodbye

Olivia Aviles THANK YOU!!!!!

my favorite song

God I love this song.

if anything this would have saved me when i was really suicidal. it encapsulates somebody who just follows what they are told (she doesnt kill herself during the week because she has work) and doesn't express themself. their partner is the same, just following what they are told rather than doing what they want. in the end the speaker never saw herself as a human being and cared about other people way more. they didn't believe anything could change- but everything does. basically the message is to do the opposite, at least that is how i see it.

um No your beautiful and made me cry because I can finally say I relate

this song is literally my life in a nutshell

please do not die friend, that's not groovy

this song tears my soul