Everything Is Embarrassing Lyrics

[Intro]
I know you're trying

[Verse 1]
Everything and nothing always haunts me
I know you're trying, I know you're trying
Waiting for your moment to fall on me
I saw you trying, I saw you trying

[Chorus 1]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother

Telling me that basically you're not looking out for me
Everything is true to me, never words where you would see
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother

[Post-Chorus]
I know you're trying
I know you're trying

[Verse 2]
Hurts so bad, I don't know what you want from me
You know I'm trying, you know I'm trying
And now we're hanging on by a heartbeat
You know I'm trying, I was always trying

[Chorus 1]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother
Telling me that basically you're not looking out for me
Everything is true to me, never words where you would see

[Chorus 2]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother
I've been hating everything, everything that could have been
Could have been my anything, now everything's embarrassing

[Bridge]
Acting like it's nothing, such a bore
I saw the truth and I just can't ignore
You're trying to hold the heart that you once tore, oh

Say I tried to give my best before
You wouldn't have the chance to give me more
You're only one step closer to the door, oh

[Chorus 1]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother
Telling me that basically you're not looking out for me
Everything is true to me, never words where you would see
[Chorus 2]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother
I've been hating everything, everything that could have been
Could have been my anything, now everything's embarrassing

[Chorus 1]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother
Telling me that basically you're not looking out for me
Everything is true to me, never words where you would see

[Chorus 2/Outro]
Maybe if you let me be your lover
Maybe if you tried, then I would not bother
I've been hating everything, everything that could have been
Could have been my anything, now everything's embarrassing

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About

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“Everything Is Embarrassing” was released as the second single from Sky Ferreira’s second EP, Ghost in 2012.

“Everything Is Embarrassing” is a dance-pop, synthpop and funk song described as a “dance-worthy tune”. It was written by Ferreira, Dev Hynes, and Ariel Rechtshaid, while the latter two produced the track. Hynes, a friend of Ferreira, had sent her a demo of the song, which was inspired by a failed relationship; Ferreira then modified the original lyrics and structure along with Rechtshaid.

It came in at #14 on Pitchfork Media’s list of The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far: 2010 – 2014.

In October 2019, it was ranked #12 on Pitchfork Media’s list of The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s.

The music video was shot and directed by Grant Singer with an ultra-low budget at the request of Capitol Records. Singer, who had previously directed the clips for Ferreira’s tracks “Sad Dream” and “Lost in My Bedroom,” shot the video in Los Angeles in a single day as Ferreira was scheduled to depart for New York City the following day.

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In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #149 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:

Sky Ferreira’s ‘Everything Is Embarrassing’ marked her first foray into pop stardom — by that point, the 20-year-old had a successful career as a model and actress, but this downtrodden dance-pop single produced by 1980s revisionists Dev Hynes and Ariel Rechtshaid ushered in a new musical moment. Ferreira’s vocals are impossibly cool, fully embracing the humiliation of anxiety and unfulfilled romances. It’s a song that submits to mundane mortifications, the sound of sweet suffering.

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