Don't nobody tell me
That God don't have a sense of humor
'Cause now that I want to live
Well, everybody around me is dying
Now that I finally wanna live
The ones I love are dyin'
Becoming friends with a noose that I made
And I keep tryin' to untie it
Make it into something useful
Or maybe hang it through a window pane
Turn it into a fire escape
[Chorus]
It tastes so bitter on my tongue
The truth's a killer
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
[Verse 2]
You don't remember my name somedays
Or that we're related
It triggers my worry
Who else am I gonna lose before I am ready?
And who's gonna lose me?
It tastes so bitter on my tongue
The truth's a killer
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it a-
[Verse 3]
If you know love
You best prepare to grieve
Let it enter your open heart and
Then prepare to let it leave
[Chorus]
It tastes so bitter
The truth's a killer
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it alone
But I can't leave it a-
But I can't leave it a-
About
The second single from Petals for Armor is a song about grief. “Leave It Alone” sees Hayley singing about struggling with losing people and how she’s managed to escape her depression. It shows how, according to Hayley,
The more you love, the more you stand to lose.
She’s had a history of losing people such as band members, her husband, and her grandmother. She’s now afraid of losing more people but knows that she can’t hide and not let herself feel love.
“Leave It Alone” is detailed as the continuation of “Simmer” and sees her coping with the demons she fought on that track.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Hayley told Beats 1
It really sucks that you do have to dig through the dirtiest shit to find like the diamonds or something, you know? Like you’ve got to burn all of it off. My family went through something insane in the middle of… I’m working. I’m doing all this work on childhood stuff and traumas, and I’m terrified of losing people obviously. And my Nana, who was my mom’s mother, had this terrible fall. And it was right after, it was the day after… Her and I share a birthday. She’s 50 years older than me, so she’s 81 now. The day after her 80th, my 30th, she fell like all the way down my mom’s stairs and [suffered] head trauma. Like the kind of thing that we had said goodbye to her. Right? And in a weird twisted… The weirdest thing is that she got better, but it prolonged the grief because she’s not really here with us. She doesn’t really remember everything. Thankfully she knows who I am, she knows who my mom is, but she really doesn’t. It was so tough and felt like there was a lot of death at the time. People that we knew, a lot of disease, like family friends and stuff. And I just thought, like, what is the point of loving people? Like why? Even in the best case scenario is I fall in love, we have a life together and then we lose one or the other. It’s terrifying. The more you love, the more you stand to lose, but it’s like the more I let it… I mean, I struggle with it all the time.
- 1.Simmer
- 2.Leave It Alone
- 3.Cinnamon
- 4.Creepin’
- 6.Dead Horse
- 7.My Friend
- 8.Over Yet
- 10.Why We Ever
- 11.Pure Love
- 12.Taken
- 13.Sugar on the Rim
- 15.Crystal Clear
