Writer in the Dark

"**Writer in the Dark**" is a track from Lorde's sophomore album, *Melodrama*.

## Background

During an interview, Lorde sang a line from one of her "favorite tracks" on the album, "Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark". Later, the track list revealed it was in fact titled "Writer in the Dark".

### Writing and Composition

About the song Lorde said:

> "I think that when you do this, you have to find a way to live with yourself, because it’s not making no one feel anything. A handful of people will listen to this album and have it sort of get them [in the gut].
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> *But it was important for me to say. And I don’t think that song is apologising for it. It’s more like, what did you think was going to happen? I was doing this before I met you and I’ll be doing this after you’re gone… I felt quite empowered*.
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> It was weird, I woke up in the middle of the night and was lying next to someone. And I wrote it down on my phone and I was like, ‘Oh God, I feel so naughty writing this!’ While somebody’s sleeping, like an evil witch. But I really love that song. I feel like it’s such a cool, painful moment in the record."
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About the writing of the song, she also later revealed QUOTE:

> "Someone said to me, you know, who do you think you are? What do you think you are doing basically? And, it took me a minute, and then I woke up in the middle of the night and I just wrote down a sentence and the sentence was: bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark."
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## Lyrics

Break the news - you're walking out

To be a good man for someone else

Sorry I was never good like you

Stood on my chest and kept me down

Hated hearing my name on the lips of a crowd

Did my best to exist just for you

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops

I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me

But in our darkest hours, I stumbled on a secret power

I'll find a way to be without you, babe

I still feel you, now and then

Slow like pseudo-ephedrine

When you see me, will you say I've changed?

I ride the subway, read the signs

I let the seasons change my mind

I love it here since I've stopped needing you

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops

I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me

But in our darkest hours, I stumbled on a secret power

I'll find a way to be without you, babe

I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops

I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me

But in our darkest hours, I stumbled on a secret power

I'll find a way to be without you, babe

## Navigation

"**Sober**"
"Homemade Dynamite"
"The Louvre"

"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
"Sober II (Melodrama)"
"**Writer in the Dark**"

"Liability (Reprise)"
"**Perfect Places**"
"**Homemade Dynamite (Remix)**"