How does it feel
To lie alone in your bed
When you know this is forever?
Low like the sun
Come down and break into two
And I know we'll burn together
[Chorus: Ragnar]
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
But I'm careless and I'm wicked
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
It's a cruel war
I still have pieces of you stuck on me
Pieces of you stuck on me
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
It's a cruel war
[Verse 2: Ragnar]
Cold, but you glow
Like the streets of Tokyo
It's alright, we can stay lost here forever
Sinking stones, we don't know
What lies on the riverbed
So we fall, no control
No, this can't be over yet
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
But I'm careless and I'm wicked
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
It's a cruel war
I still have pieces of you stuck on me
Pieces of you stuck on me
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
It's a cruel war
[Post-Chorus: Nanna]
(That's how it's supposed to be)
[Bridge: Ragnar, Nanna]
We try to laugh about it like it's okay
(That's how it's supposed to be)
We try to laugh about it like it's okay
It's heavy, is that how it's supposed to be?
[Chorus: Ragnar, Nanna]
Yeah, I love you on the weekends (Love you on the weekends)
But I'm careless and I'm wicked (Careless and I'm wicked)
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
It's a cruel war
I still have pieces of you stuck on me (Love you on the weekends)
Pieces of you stuck on me (Careless and I'm wicked)
Yeah, I love you on the weekends
It's a cruel war
About
“Wars” continues the upbeat instrumentals and colorfully passionate themes of Fever Dream that were uncharacteristic of the band on previous albums. Lyrically, it compares the careless wickedness and intense weekend encounters of a nonetheless loving relationship to a war-like conflict.
The song peaked at #34 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart on August 10th, 2019 despite not being individually released as a single.
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In an interview with The Line of Best Fit, Nanna explained:
There’s for example no guitar on ‘Wars’, and that would never have happened if we had written the song together in the studio, because we are three guitarists in the band. Making the songs separately allowed us to let the songs breathe more instead of all of them sounding the same. But as a result of this process, composing and putting the album together took a lot longer, because we were figuring things out by ourselves.
- 1.Alligator
- 2.Ahay
- 3.Róróró
- 6.Wild Roses
- 8.Sleepwalker
- 9.Wars
- 10.Under A Dome
- 11.Soothsayer
