Gracie Abrams’ “Death Wish” explores the emotional devastation of loving someone who is manipulative, narcissistic, and emotionally detached. Through vivid metaphors, the song captures the realization that charm can hide cruelty, as the narrator breaks free from a toxic relationship, choosing clarity and self-preservation over painful illusion and emotional dependence.
Death Wish Lyrics
[Verse 1]
My love, you love your time machine, your power trips and diamond rings
The walls you built on teenage dreams, the well you dug for sinking things
Your words to kill are evergreen, so you must not feel anything at all
But how’d you get so bulletproof? You trade your time for inside truths
Trade your time for any clue of what to do or not to do
Hate to say, it’s nothing new, aside from those few girls you keep around
[Chorus]
How will it end? How long will you give me
‘Til you twist the knife with a smile while you kill me?
Then you ask me to dance if there’s someone around
You don’t look the same when I look at you now
[Post-Chorus]
Hm-mm, hm-mm
Mm
[Verse 2]
Honey pie, you’re haunting me, I fell for your faux fantasy
You poured the wine, there’s poison in it
Disregard my disposition, proof is in the subtle things
Your eggshell floor is splintering now, mm
And it freaks me out I’m old enough to know you as a gateway drug
You’re everything I’ll never be, you live to look for enemies
I have to bet that’s lonely, could leave you with an empty house
(Ah-ah, ah)
[Chorus]
So, how will it end? How long will you give me
‘Til you twist the knife with a smile while you kill me?
Then you ask me to dance if there’s someone around
You don’t look the same when I look at you now
And I used to pretend that it didn’t feel evil
Your light of a million suns burns through people
And bridges and cities ’til ash covers ground
A breath of your air is a death wish
[Bridge]
And you’re forcing my hand, but I’m a drop in your ocean
I ruined your plans of some grand self-promotion
The second you figured that I figured you out
Now you look away when I look at you now
[Outro]
(Hm-mm) When I look at you now
(Hm-mm) Well, look at you now
Mm-mm
Video of Death Wish Lyrics By Gracie Abrams
Song Credits
- Song Name :– Daughter from Hell
- Singer Name :–Gracie Abrams
- Producer:- Aaron Dessner
- Album:– Daughter from Hell
- Release Date :– July 17, 2026
Song Bio of Death Wish
“Death Wish” is Gracie Abrams at her most unflinching, a stripped-back piano ballad that trades her usual diaristic softness for something closer to indictment. Co-written with Aaron Dessner, the track studies a partner who wields charm as a weapon, mapping the slow realization that intimacy has curdled into control. Abrams has said the song grew out of watching a close friend date someone who turned out to be a “mega narcissist”, and that outside vantage point gives the writing its clarity — less heartbreak than autopsy.
First aired live at London’s O2 Arena, the song has since become a fan favorite for its restraint: no swelling chorus to soften the blow, just a quiet, devastating reckoning with someone who never looked the same twice.
