Guiltless

"Guiltless" is Dodie's first single of 2019, and after that, Boys Like You.

## About

Guiltless is about an "family mess" according to Dodie. It's about someone who told someone something, when they shouldn't have.

## Lyrics

There is a wall in my life built by you (mmm)
You opened a door that a kid shouldn't walk through
Oh, but I'm not bitter, I'm just tired
No use getting angry at the way that you're wired
Ignorant trauma in one afternoon

And I could never let you know (ooh you'd never get it)
And now I'm the one who can't let go (ooh don't say it's genetic)

Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
Oh, I can tell you believe you're guiltless
But I don't think I'd feel better if I opened your eyes
I'll carry your burden 'til the day that you die
Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
(Mmm)

I'll never know why you favour that tone (mmm)
Not one shred of hope so I built up my own
Oh, but I'm not bitter, I'm just tired
No use getting angry at the way that you're wired
A dark politician will end up alone

And I could never let you know (ooh you'd never get it)
And now I'm the one who can't let go (ooh don't say it's genetic)

Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
Oh, I can tell you believe you're guiltless
But I don't think I'd feel better if I opened your eyes
I'll carry your burden 'til the day that you die
Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
(Mmm)

I'm not bitter, I'm just tired
No use getting angry at the way that you're wired
(I'm not bitter, I'm just tired)
I could never let you know (ooh)
(No use getting angry at the way that you're wired)
Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
(I'm not bitter, I'm just tired)
(No use getting angry at the way that you're wired)
Ooh ooh
I could never let you know (ooh)
(No use getting angry at the way that you're wired)
I'm not bitter, I'm just tired
No use getting angry at the way that you're wired
(I'm not bitter, I'm just tired)
(No use getting angry at the way that you're wired)
Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
(I'm not bitter, I'm just tired)
(No use getting angry at the way that you're wired)
Is it real? You believe you're guiltless
(I'm not bitter, I'm just tired)
(No use getting angry at the way that you're wired)

## Trivia

* When speaking to Apple Music, dodie said that "Guiltless" is "about a difficult topic that I could never talk about publicly. There are those complex relationships in life where there’s so much love, but so much anger, disbelief, guilt, expectation, and resentment. This is a song exploring that, from a safe, vague-ish distance.”
* On June 8, 2019, dodie uploaded a video on why and how she wrote "Guiltless".
	+ dodie wrote the outro first, beginning with "I'm not bitter, I'm just tired. No use getting angry at the way that you're wired." According to her, "it was an interesting thing to explore and learning how to forgive."
	+ For the line, "I could never let you know," dodie says that "I wrote that line because that's where a lot of guilt sits in my body. Like, the whole 'never' thing kind of ties in to the feeling of this is just the way I'll always feel. This is where that black hole feeling comes from."
	+ For the line, "Is it real? You believe you're guiltless," dodie says "I needed that phrase to be almost like a question. I wanted to sing it real delicately along the top."

## References

1. ↑ https://music.apple.com/us/album/build-a-problem/1535123610
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx89FnzH-9I