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Love Without Violence Is Treason

by Stella de Ville

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1.
It’s easy I just copied your key, see Did you think you could trust me? Since when do I respect privacy? My love, It’s not that hard I’ve been watch ing from your backyard Let me leave you my calling card In the form of a body My brain’s hyperfocused I can’t concentrate enough to breathe I defile my body Pleasing you is my priority It’s easy I just copied your key, see Did you think you could trust me? Since when do I respect boundaries? My love, It’s not complex After all of our cybersex I obtained your IP address And I’m coming for coffee When I tell you that it’s early, you say, “We’ll just take our time,” We’re on a ride I’m out of my mind You’re flinging my marbles (so far, I think they're gone) You say you’re afraid to die, I promise this isn’t your time Nor is is mine So darlin’, come here I’m not gonna hurt you And I’ve got my property spending Sunday evenings Camped out on my floor Wearing fuck me eyes and a grin that makes me wanna Paint her brains on the door You just wanna play I give my love to GTA Sweet honey kisses on your thighs after I cut them It’s easy I just copied your key, see Did you think you could trust me? Since when do I respect basic needs? My love, It’s not abstract Ever since we made eye contact We've established a suicide pact Laminated and glossy So what’s the world gonna do? Six hundred sixty six feet underground I’ve got you sitting Clockwork Orange style with all my metal dedicated to your eyes It seems to good to be true All your wet nightmares realized in life The way I move my bony limbs and drag a chain around your neck Our outline I’m just asking, what’s the world gonna do? Are some foreign forces gonna sweep in and rescue you? My sweet baby tooth, you’re hanging from a gum thread You should try dangling instead What’s the world gonna do?
2.
Why do you look at me with such fear in your eyes? Cause honey, I’m harmless and soon you will learn That I get by With the help of something in mind It’s a regulation A code of conduct that will turn Someone you think is evil to a saint, And yeah, it works the other way I learned that pulling all my lovers from the grave Their bodies bruised and blue in death, But I saw beauty where I left it On their necks and thighs, My errors they forgave Why are you non-responsive, my love Do we have a problem? Your skin looks so colorless now I’ve got my rule, I intend to use it, but babe, Please don’t get abusive Only so much I can allow Before somebody takes the blame for all the urges we can’t tame I’m far too young and sweet and small to go to jail Our love defies the petty sects of oxygen and life and death So let me take it all out on you, I won’t fail Cause I Treat others the way I wanna be treated I leave Limbs broken and lungs punctured and eyes blue My love, I’d never hurt you without reason but Love without violence is treason That’s why I stick to my golden rule Why does your sour stench follow me home? Though I scrub my hands till they foam, I still smell recent death I clear my head, well, at least I try to In bed, my mind rushes to you The thought of you makes me a mess Your bony body splayed out on the blanket spread upon the dirt next to your grave where I come see you once a week And when our fingers intertwine, I know that all the planet’s time couldn’t change the way you make my knees and elbows weak Why do I still see life in your eyes? Though the time has passed, your demise seems fallacious to me I hold your hand, swear I feel you squeeze it The end isn’t here, no not yet I just hope you can forgive me A crime of passion tells you that I’m really not so violent I lost my temper, baby, and you had some nerve Just meant to scare you love, that’s all So really, don’t look so appalled I’ll make it up to you, despite our learning curve Cause I Treat others the way I wanna be treated I leave Scars open, I rub the salt in the wound My love, I’d never hurt you without reason but Love without violence is treason And that’s why I stick to my golden rule You’re just too young to understand it I guess you’re stuck the age you were when you died And that’s my fault, and I’ll admit it But I’ve got something to fix it, my love, it’s the Golden rule
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I’m gonna leave you When you need me the most I’m gonna cheat on you with your brother And then make you drive me home I'm gonna tell you that your love is expendable Oh my darling, I’m not dependable So baby, please, let’s not fall in love I’m gonna hurt you When you think that you’re safe I’m gonna spy on you in the shower And then tell you you’re insane I’m gonna tell you you deserve nobody but me It’s not toxic, you asked for everything So baby, listen, please let’s not fall in love Can we agree not to do that? I’ll make your life a hell, I don’t wanna put you through that You seem invincible but honey, I can see through that I just don’t wanna endow you with damage that’s mine So can you promise me one thing? I’m tearing out my hair hoping you’ll realize that something Is deeply fucking wrong with me and you should be running As far as you can manage, baby, staying alive I’m gonna cut you while you’re living in dreams I’m gonna plant myself in your psyche Before you know what it means I’m gonna twist your moral compass to match with mine You’ll question your being, like, all the time So baby, listen, please, let’s not fall in love So am I proving my point yet? You’re far too sweet and gentle to be ruined by me yet And if I crack your kindness, I know we’ll both regret it I just don’t wanna fill your life with trauma that’s mine So can you promise to keep all Your feelings for me locked under security, you fall In deeper than you are for me, and baby, you’ll free fall Into a web of torture of my careful design Please can we agree not to do that? I’m begging you, for your own good, and also for mine I promise, baby, You deserve to thrive, and I’ll take your life if we fall in love
4.
My baby’s got me feeling like it’s 1971 Like I’m a college kid depending on some extra funds And I’m looking for opportunity I’m bony, but my mind’s beyond my years My body’s the catalyst for human hatred, too 
My lover’s got me going to a private university In Stanford, California, where the skies are clear and blue And the air smells like price tags on success One fuck up, and my mighty stature’s gone So over the summer, I will do what I can do Because I’m trapped inside the basement of our love Waste my time pacing, wondering what The time I spend here’s gonna do to me and you And if our future’s bright, God, I can’t tell Behind this blindfold, might as well Be constant night But I can’t fight Our sweet Stanford prison experiment, my love My darling’s got me pressed against my car at 4:01 PM The metal stings my skin, the afternoon sun burns my eyes But it’s all part of the experience They say immersion really works the best Despite my discomfort, I’ll endure it all for you The days are getting shorter now that time and space are meaningless This place isn’t a basement, I swear it’s a prison cell And corruption runs rampant, sour, and deep I see sparks every time I close my eyes Whether I’m malnourished or in love, I’ve no idea Somebody, I’m trapped inside the prison of our love Waste my time thinking, dreaming of The days when freedom was a truth for me and you And if our future stands, God, I can’t reach Behind these handcuffs, everything Is out of touch But I can’t rush Our sweet Stanford prison experiment, my love Have I been here for years? The years are getting rough I know you’d never hurt me, but, my love My trust is spread so thin My limbs are pulled so taught My body’s getting weaker and I’m not Present like I should be The shell of my stomach is empty I’m just watching every guard waiting for you, darling Trapped inside the graveyard of our love Waste my time chasing after what I think are shadows of the you I swear I knew And if our future’s there, God, I don’t know Under this dirt, my senses go A mile an hour It still has power Our sweet Stanford prison experiment, my love If our future's bright, God, I can't see Everything is out of touch Our sweet Stanford prison experiment, my love
5.
The marks that you leave on my face Only tell me that you really care Love bites and cigarette burns I get what I know I deserve Pick me off the ground again Hold my face and tell you, baby, I’m bleeding And I don’t wanna go I know your back's against the wall I slammed the door and told you, baby, I’m leaving But I don’t wanna die The cuts that you leave on my skin Like you, they’ll always be here Cross-hatched, intertwined Just like our hands tonight I tried to do it so nicely After that we’d be friends, oh, I was pleading But you won’t listen tonight When I found out you’ve been around I saw her here and painted her brains on our ceiling But won’t you forgive me Pick me off the ground again Hold my face and tell you, baby, I’m bleeding And I don’t wanna go I know your back's against the wall I slammed the door and told you, baby, I’m leaving But I don’t wanna die Baby, I'm bleeding

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released April 16, 2020

Stella de Ville (lyrics, production, vocals)
Jonah Felice (lyrics)

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