DARLING DON'T BE UNKIND
“Darling Don’t Be Unkind,” is a song that we are particularly fond of. There is a very Beatles vibe to it. The Beatles wanted to “hold your hand,” we went a bit further with “feel your lips on mine.” The song has an uncommon chord progression and a nice melody like many Beatles songs — so we produced it with that sort of vibe.
This is a tongue-in-cheek song – we must have come across “do you know your body starts dying the minute you are born,” joke… or some variation of it somewhere. When we first wrote the song it was about this guy telling a girl that he’s dying (wink... wink not mentioning that it will be in 60 years maybe) and hoping she takes pity on him and kisses him.
But after singing it a couple of times, we realized that the idea gets old pretty fast so we changed it a bit. Like a Beatles song, this one is also quite simple but also complicated at the same time. It must be mentioned that we wrote all these songs without any knowledge of musical theory or even familiarity with more than a handful of chords — although there’s a minor and a barred chord here… wow!
— Thomas Itty (January 2021) —
(Words & Music by Thomas Itty & Krishna Kumar)
I found that my life
Is strange and mystifying
Ever since I was born
They tell me that I’ve been dying
Hold my hand don’t let me go
Cos I feel like I’m falling
Mold my life into something better
But save me from dying
Darling don’t be unkind
I only want to feel your lips on mine
Darling don’t be unkind
Just tell me once that you’ll be mine
Like a candle that’s burning
My life is fading
Like the book that I am reading
The pages are turning
Like the sky that’s raining
And the streaks of lightning
Like the God of whom they’re preaching
That God I just can’t reach him
Oh darling don’t be unkind
I only want to feel your lips on mine
Darling don’t be unkind
Just tell me once that you’ll be mine
I found that my life
Has all been wasted
Ever since I was born
Only hate have I tasted
Hold me once and love me
Until the morning
Lay beside me now
And let me feel your heart beating
Oh darling don’t be unkind
I only want to feel your lips on mine
Darling don’t be unkind
Just tell me once that you’ll be mine
Oh I found…. la la la la la
Mmmm mmmmm
Mmmm mmmmm
Mmmm mmmmm
Mmmm mmmmm
Mmmm mmmmm
Mmmm mmmmm
Mmmm mmmmm
Oh darling don’t be unkind
I only want to feel your lips on mine
Darling don’t be unkind
Just tell me once that you’ll be mine
Yeah that’s what I found