Sharon Van Etten’s Are We There is at the top of our Best Albums of 2014.  If you don’t have it memorized by now, you are missing out.  Van Etten has now released the video for one of the best songs off of the album, Your Love Is Killing Me.  The video for the eyes-wide-open song is directed by Sean Durkin (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”) and stars Carla Juri (“Wetlands”).  Durkin’s work here is riveting throughout and limns well Van Etten’s lyrical lament (see lyrics at bottom).  And all the while SVE’s vocals are chill-inducing.  Check it out below.

Van Etten and her superb backing band continue to be on tour in support of Are We There.  Despite heatstroke-inducing heat, SVE and crew performed a mesmerizing set at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival earlier this month.  The tour dates can be viewed HERE.  Don’t you miss it.

Your Love Is Killing Me

“You said it best. You’ll be a man by the time I see you.
We’ve been through better days, and you’ve tasted all my pain.

Break my legs so I won’t walk to you.
Cut my tongue so I can’t talk to you.
Burn my skin so I can’t feel you.
Stab my eyes so I can’t see
You like it when I let you walk over me.
You tell me that you like it.
Your love is killing me.

Try to tell you this when I’m sober… how I feel about loving you.
Try to remember the turn of events, being led by our own fantasies.
Fantasies…

Break my legs so I won’t walk to you.
Cut my tongue so I can’t talk to you.
Burn my skin so I can’t feel you.
Stab my eyes so I can’t see
You like it when I let you walk over me.
You tell me that you like it
when our minds become diseased.

There he let it go, his temper, standing there.
See her with his gun and he steals love so he can feel alive
Everyone’s knees knockin’ at the fear of love. Taste blood.
Everybody needs to feel.

Break my legs so I won’t run to you.
Steal my soul so I am one with you.
From a distance I am on to you,
But I’ll stab my eyes out so I can’t see
You like it when I let you walk over me.
You say that you like it.
You love me as you torture me.
You say that you like it, but I won’t let you see
All that I can do is what I can
with this pain you’ve given me,
with this pain you’ve given me,
your love is killing me,
yes, all your pain is killing me.”