#stay down by boygenius

[thedogwithabirdatyourdoor]

bro,,,,

[spacesymbol]

anyone else ever think about drowning in media?

[edge-of-the-end]

my faves

[oopsl]

Boygenius EP by Boygenius, 2018

[gruesome-beauty]

Stay Down // August 5, 2023

[boygeniussy]

when julien baker said “i’m in the backseat of my body” like damn that really hit

[c-kiddo]

punching the wall and crying bc i love beau criticalrole so much shes so cool and mean and angry and hurting and scared and trying her best and funny and loves her friends and so angry angry angry and so full of love and care too

[lucylucius]

"wasn't a fighter 'til somebody told me

I had better learn to lean into the punch

so it don't hurt as bad when they leave

there you were, turnin' your cheek"

AU where Ellie plays in a band idk 🎸🌿🌈🦖

[buckysoldatbarnes]

jesse pinkman, breaking bad / stay down, boygenius / letters to an old poet, boygenius / graceland too, phoebe bridgers

[stillwithmeisonlyyou]

Got this idea from @caloak888

My fav boygenius lyrics (solo careers- also some phoebe covers included) in no particular order:

"I'm 27 and I don't know who I am but I know what I want"

"I can't love you how you want me to"

"Here's the best part distilled for you"

"I'll bite the hand that feeds/ needs me"

"Know it's for the better" (obviously)

"and when broken bodies are washed to shore, who am I to ask for more?"

"If I breathe you will it kill me? Will you have me or watch me fall? If I fix you will you hate me? Would you fuck this and let us fall? "

"anyway, don't be a stranger"

"yes you're evil but you're not that bad,/ you put out your palm more than the back of your hand"

I know claw machine is a sloppy jane song and phoebe is featured in it but that song made me question my existence for a month so it's too good not to put on here :

"I paint my ceiling black so I don't notice when my eyes are open"

"I think I was born bored/ I think I was born blue/ I think I was born wanting more/ I think I was born already missing you"

"But my heart is like a claw machine/ Its only function is to reach/ It can't hold on to anything/ No I can't hold on to anything"

"You know it's a mistake when it's me who was making it/ It's always the wrong thing when it's me who's saying it"

"Watch the world from the sidelines/ Had nothing to prove/ Till you came into my life/ Gave me something to lose/ Now I know what it feels like to wanna go outside/ Like the shape of my outline"

"And I used to think you could hear the ocean in a seashell, what a childish thing"

"and it feels good to be known so well/ I can't hide from you like I hide from myself/ I remember who I am when I'm with you/ your love is tough, your love is tried and true blue"

"the harder I swim the faster I sink" (classic I know)

"But I shouldn't have built a house in the middle of your chest/ plywood boards joined at your breast/ splinter in my arm where you rest your head"

"I don't wanna be that man on the train/ On a grey commute, imagining fame/ Sweet relief, I will never be complete/ I will never be complete, I'll never know everything"

"Everybody else, everybody else looks like they've figured it out"

"I'm just as good as anybody, I'm just as bad as anybody"

the entirety of stay down that song is just too good

"you thought I'd never leave and I let you believe you were right"

"I don't wanna die, that's a lie"

"I wanna be emaciated/ I wanna hear one song without thinking of you"

"I wanna be happy/ I'm ready/ To walk into my room without looking for you/ I'll go up to the top of our building/ And remember my dog when I see the full moon/I can't feel it yet/ But I am waiting all morning..."

See how it comes back full circle

" If nothing can be known then stupidity is holy / if the void becomes a bore, we'll treat ourselves to some self belief"

"I wish that I drank because of you and not only because of me/ Then I could blame something painful enough not to make me look any more weak"

"I'd say "Give me no sympathy" it's the mercy I can't take"

"Tell me what snuffed out the wick in your eye"

The outro of I know the end you know what im talking about

"I want to believe/ instead I look at the sky and I feel nothing/ you know I hate to be alone/ I want to belong"

"You pulled a moth out from the grill of your truck saying "It's a shame"/ How come it's so much easier with anything less than human?/ Letting yourself be tender/ Well, you couldn't make me do it"

"Cause if I didn't have a mean bone in my body/ I'd find some other way to cause you pain/ I won't bother telling you I'm sorry/ For something that I'm gonna do again"

"Do I get callous or do I stay tender?"

"you want love/ This is as close as you're gonna get/ Not enough/ Just as much as you think you can live with/ Hurt 'til it's all gone, baby/ It's all gone, baby"

The gold- I know it's technically not phoebe but can't really exclude that

"I'm gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain/ If this is a prison, I'm willing to buy my own chain"

"I feel crazy in ways I never say/ Will you still love me if it turns out I'm insane?/ I know what you'll say/ But it helps to hear you say it, anyway"

"If you rewrite your life, may I still play a part/ In the next one, will you find me?/ I'll be the boy with the pink carnation pinned to my lapel who looks like hell and asks for help/ And if you do, I'll know it's you"

"If you cut a whole into my skull,do you hate what you see? Like I do"

Like there are so many more but if this didn't convince you to listen to my babies then I don't know what will

[glassbottleketchup]

I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING AND MAYBE I’M DUMB FOR NOT REALIZING SOONER, BUT ANTI CURSE IS RELATED TO STAY DOWN. SHE QUITE LITERALLY DOESN’T STAY DOWN. SHE SWIMS BACK BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE TO MAKE IT BAD JUST ‘CAUSE YOU KNOW HOW. i’m crying.

[scarletfish]

PSA! don't listen to stay down by boygenius. and think about jean moreau

[elkdiaries]

hi ! !!!! stay down was the best song on the ep btw.

[pulledrounder]

Stay down, man If you get up again he'll probably kill you Stay where you are I'll go get the car and we can go But I swear to god I'll leave you here to die If you say one more word to that guy

[ironboobs]

Listening to this song again and I remember how I felt when I finally realized this lyric was a nod to the video games she talks about in the first verse. Dumb. Dumb is what I felt, because I hadn't realized it sooner.

[rowansreverie]

Some various sketches I’ve done based on songs from boygenius and some from their respective solo works.

and some scrapped tattoo ideas