Apocalypse Lyrics and the Rise of Cigarettes After Sex
Apocalypse - Lyrics
You leapt from crumbling bridges watching cityscapes turn to dust
Filming helicopters crashing in the ocean from way above
Got the music in you baby, tell me why
Got the music in you baby, tell me why
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye
Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms
You’ve been hiding them in hollowed out pianos left in the dark
Got the music in you baby, tell me why
Got the music in you baby, tell me why
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye
Your lips, my lips, apocalypse
Your lips, my lips, apocalypse
Go and sneak us through the rivers flood is rising up on your knees
Oh please
Come out and haunt me
I know you want me
Come out and haunt me
Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids
Sleeping soundly with the locket that she gave you clutched in your fist
Got the music in you baby, tell me why
Got the music in you baby, tell me why
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye
Oh
When you're all alone
I will reach for you
When you're feeling low
I will be there too
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Cigarettes After Sex frontman on going viral
| Cigarettes After Sex have circumvented perceived wisdom that indie bands are doomed in the modern age of declining sales and mundane Spotify playlists, by becoming an old-fashioned word-of-mouth triumph. |
Formed in 2008, Gonzalez’ project was uniformly ignored until 2015 when “Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby”, a track from 2012 EP I., became an unlikely online sensation, racking up 65 million views. It was, as Gonzalez puts it, “basically like lightning striking. YouTube stars go viral, not really bands.”
Cigarettes After Sex haven’t looked back. Such is the surprise level of success – 175,000 album sales of last year’s self-titled debut album; more than 4 million streams, selling out the 5,000 capacity Brixton Academy – record label Partisan threw a party on the day of their last London show at the Roundhouse to celebrate.
The ritual behind the band's name
Gonzalez has a playful side, but he takes the project immensely seriously. “I’d have died without this” he tells me at one point, and insists that even in the days of struggle, or the “days that have been erased” as he puts it, he wouldn’t have ever given up.
“It wasn’t in me to quit, it was too ingrained. I would have had to give up being myself”. He speaks in a voice so deep it seems incompatible with the androgynous register on his songs that had many assuming Cigarettes After Sex had a female singer.
That is one of several aspects that make Cigarettes After Sex stand out from a congested dream-pop field, the most obvious being that name, coined after a “ritual I had with a friend with benefits”.
Depending on your viewpoint it’s either memorably throwaway or jarringly awful. “Luckily most people love the name.” I’m not sure about that, I suggest. “The name is really loaded so I get what those people are saying. Maybe it’s a bit much. But I think it suits us well.”
Writing explicit lyrics
The mini-narratives that float over the music are real life stories full of love and lust. “In my life I’m not vocal with my emotions, so it was a way of getting things out. I found it was the most natural thing to write about. When I got as personal as I could I felt exhilarated.”
He compares the detailed descriptions of relationships and random sexual encounters as like “looking at an old photo album” that he doesn’t mind revisiting night after night. “Even the bad times, it’s good to look back on them. I tend to visualise the lyrics a lot, singing the songs takes me back to rooms and landscapes and scenes, exactly what it was like.”
“I was wondering why sex wasn’t being discussed in a lot of music that I liked,” Gonzalez says. “It wasn’t being talked about in the more adult way I was looking for, and a lighter way, which is part of love, part of romance, or romance I’ve had at least. To tell the story I wanted to tell it had to be in there.”
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