The brilliance of Cigarettes after sex lyrics
I could list all the superlative degrees to appreciate songs.
I’d rather say, I’m obsessed with them.
There are certain songs, you encounter- some left you a raging river.
And others become your outfit. There are rare ones, hard to find out.
Though once you encounter them, you spend time and try to get closer throughout days, weeks and months.
You hear them on loop, whether you’re in a lift, silently carrying you down, or when you’re talking long walks.
You’ve fallen in love with them at first sight and lyrics are at the edge of your lips, about to fall anytime.
So these days, I’ve been in a living relationship with such a song which happened to be just a YouTube recommendation a year ago.
Cigarette after sex, their band name is.
Ironic name, isn’t it?
Their sensational songs have moved me so much that I tried writing songs after that.
This handsome-looking, black-bearded guy is the reason I’ve been hooked on a one single single for a long, long time.
He is a lead-singer, song-writer and genius.
Just have a glance on these lyrics:
Verse 1:
You leapt from crumbling bridges watching cityscapes turn to dust
Filming helicopters crashing in the ocean from way above
Chorus:
Got the music in you baby,
Tell me why
Got the music in you baby,
Tell me why
Verse 2:
You’ve been locked in here forever & you just can’t say goodbye
Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms
You’ve been hiding them in the hollowed out pianos left in the dark…
Bridge:
Go & sneak us through the rivers,
Flood is rising up your knees
Oh please…
Come out & haunt me
I know you want me
Come & haunt me
Verse 3:
Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids
Sleeping soundly with the lockets that she gave you clutched in your fist…
When you’re all alone
I will reach for you
When you’re feeling low
I will be there too.
With such few lines, what a masterpiece. And the utmost special thing, I feel about this song, it provides you a different ambience.
It shhs…. all those work-from home sounds and make you feel like a free leaf streaming away on a cold breeze.
Let’s magnify the lyrics where you’ll see a great deal of striking meanings it possesses.
“You leapt from the crumbling bridges cityscapes…”
Quite paints the back-drop of apocalypse , depicting how he and his lover ended their tragic relationship, all of a sudden. Isn’t it?
I’ve heard a plethora of heart-broken songs, but never ever I found comparing a break-up with apocalypse, set in back-ground.
The whole song depicts the traumas of Greg’s past relationships and his strive to move on. So, one can say this song is a love letter for his past love.
And that “Got the music in you baby, tell me why…”
I try to visualize what Shakespeare would have done if he had been asked to make some revision in it.
Would Romeo say to Juliet, “Shall I compare you to a music, who has got endless love for you. Oh Juliet, tell me why?”
To which Juliet responded, narrowing her desperate eyes on him, “I don’t know, you tell me why?”
What a strange play it would be, leaving Romeo, all confused.
Focusing on the song again, out of all lines in the song, I’m attached to these most-
“Kisses on the foreheads of lovers wrapped in your arms. You’ve been hiding them under the hollowed-out pianos left in the dark”
Hallowed-pianos is such an intense line that in a blink of an eye, you can imagine-
A woman stuffing her lover’s kisses in hollowed pianos that are of no use. She wants to move on from the break-up she had a long time ago.
& this one also-
Come out and haunt me,
I know you want me.
Doesn’t this line just make you smile.
I don’t know about other sad songs, the idea I’ve scooped out from this band is
If you can derive out smiles from a song- you think is flawless. Doesn’t matter if it’s a sad love story.
