Polygraph Eyes

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## Polygraph Eyes

* Single
* EP
* Album

### Writers

Dominic Harrison
Matt Schwartz

### Producers

Matt Schwartz

"**Polygraph Eyes**", released 19 January 2018, is the fourth song on YUNGBLUD's debut EP *YUNGBLUD* and the ninth song on the debut album *21st Century Liability*, as well as the EP's fourth single.

## Background

This song was written about sexual assault, from the third perspective of a man seeing another man take advantage of a woman while she's drunk. YUNGBLUD stated *"I used to go out in the north at 14 with a fake ID, and see these drunk girls stumbling out of nightclubs with boys that weren't nearly as drunk as they were...I didn't realise that it was wrong until I'd grown up, until I moved down to London and saw the world from a real perspective."* when speaking to PILERATS about the song. He commented on the perspective that the song was written in, saying *"it needs to be spoken about from a male perspective, to dilute and smash the shit of this lad mentality that's been so vastly accepted."* when speaking to Hapers Bazaar.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

She leaves her parents house around midnight

Meets her best mate at the shop, buy some cheap wine

And go to space, see the Milky Way

Get away from the teenage everyday cliché pressure

Absent on absinthe, dancing to bad synths

Saturday night ain't about romancing anymore

Just you getting lit in the queue to the dance floor

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Too many blokes are getting heavy

When a girl looks unsteady

Blisters on your bleeding soles

"Here have my boots, I'll walk you home"

He walks her straight up to the front door

As she stumbles on the floor

We all know what happens next

A bit of fun turns to regret

[Chorus]

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya, no

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya, no

Leave it alone mate, leave it alone mate, leave it alone mate

[Verse 2]

Daylight wakes her up the next morning

A foreign room where the sheets are blue, and not white

No scented candles in sight

Just a stranger on his side, says, "Cheers love for last night"

Got to go forensic, avoid the domestic

Get antiseptic and give him the polygraph eyes

Turn your head to the side and lie to the real life

[Pre-Chorus 2]

See this girl, she had a boyfriend

His name was Zack and he made her happy

But he couldn't understand

In his mind, she was a slag

When she tried to explain what happened

She was shouting at him for an hour

Crying at the top of her lungs

"Don't leave me here, you're the one I love"

[Chorus]

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya, no

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya, no

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya

[Bridge]

She can't even run, she can't even walk

She slurs when she speaks

But you hear what you want when she can't even talk

She can't even run, she can't even walk

She slurs when she speaks

But you hear what you want when she can't even talk

Can't even talk, can't even talk

(Can't even talk, can't even talk)

[Chorus]

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya, no

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya, no

Leave it alone, mate

She doesn't want to go home with ya, home with ya

[Outro]

(Leave it alone, mate) She can't even run

(Leave it alone, mate) She can't even walk

She slurs when she speaks

But you hear what you want when she can't even talk

(Leave it alone, mate) She can't even run

(Leave it alone, mate) She can't even walk

She slurs when she speaks

But you hear what you want when she can't even talk

## Buy/Stream

* YouTube (Lyric Video)
* SoundCloud
* Apple Music
* Deezer
* Tidal (Music Video)
* Google Play
* Spotify

## References

1. ↑ PILERATS — "Punk, Politics and Polygraph Eyes – An Interview with YUNGBLUD"
2. ↑ Harper's Bazaar — "Yungblud’s “Polygraph Eyes” Video Teaches Boys the Importance of Consent" (14 March 2018)