Gracie Abrams‘ collaborator is addressing all of the speculation surrounding one of her new songs.
On her latest album Daughter from Hell, the 26-year-old Grammy-nominated singer included the song “Death Wish,” which many Swifties believed is about Taylor Swift.
“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,” Gracie sings. “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”
In a new interview with Billboard, Aaron Dessner, who co-wrote and co-produced Daughter from Hell with Gracie, shut down speculation that “Death Wish” is about the 36-year-old “Actually Romantic” singer.
“Yeah, definitely not,” Aaron asserted. “It was written at a time when [Gracie] was writing about a friend’s ex, being in a bad relationship. So it was kind of about that person, I think. I wouldn’t even actually know who that person was.”
Aaron‘s comments come more than a year after Gracie first debuted “Death Wish.” She performed the song in London in March 2025 while on her The Secret of Us Tour. Before performing it, Gracie explained the meaning behind the song.
“This song is about a friend of mine who recently was dating, like, a mega narcissist,” Gracie said at the time. “A sincere friend of mine was recently dating someone who kind of sucked. And I was listening to them talk about it a lot, and so this song is about that!”
If you didn’t see, Gracie raised a lot of eyebrows when she shared an interesting photo on Instagram days after attending Taylor and Travis Kelce‘s wedding earlier this month.
Keep scrolling to read all of the “Death Wish” lyrics…
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