Original Noriko song / a love song that is a hostage situation
Stay Exactly Where I Left You
She made your coffee the way you like it. She fixed the window that was sticking — it doesn't stick now, it doesn't do anything at all. A sweet, skipping love song in major key where every kindness turns out to be a lock, told as pages from a ballpoint notebook.
Recommended for: fans of sweet-sounding menace, twee pop with one dark undertow and love songs where the love is the threat.
Themes: possession as care, isolation, domestic control, tenderness as threat.