Baby Queen Lyrics
I met the princess from Thailand again
She had grown up into a queen
Down in the abyss where the night
Never turns to daylight
She kept me in a Polaroid
That was pinned up on her wall
Under Garuda's mirror lights
She takes flight, yeah, the kid's alright
[Chorus: 2-D]
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen (You've grown up)
[Verse 2: 2-D]
She fell into the generals (Oh, Baby Queen)
On the watch all around her
I fell into the vanity
The mirrored lights of our dreams
[Chorus: 2-D]
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen
In my dreams (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Wherе you've been (Dream, dream, drеam, dream)
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen
In my dreams (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Where you've been (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Oh, Baby Queen
In my dreams (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Where you've been (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen
In my dreams (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Where you've been (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen
In my dreams (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Where you've been (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
You've grown up
Oh, Baby Queen
In my dreams (Dream, dream, dream, dream)
Where you've been (Baby Queen; dream, dream, dream, dream)
Oh, Baby Queen
You were in my dream
About
“I’m writing and recording a song about an incident when I was in Thailand and met the crown princess. This was November ’97. She was only 14 at the time, and she came to see us, and due to the very specific role the royal family play in Thailand, they put a throne next to the mixing board for her to sit in, surrounded by I don’t know how many soldiers. “Song 2” started and she stood on her throne and stage-dived into the crowd. The reason I’ve written a song about it is because I had a dream about this princess very recently; she’d grown up and we spent time in my dream together, her as a woman. So there you go: 1997 was a long time, but at the moment it’s not.”
- Damon Albarn
Q&A
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Greg Kurstin:
Only Damon could come up with such a wild concept for a song. [In Bangkok in 1997, Albarn met a crown princess who crowd-surfed at a Blur gig; while writing songs for Cracker Island, he dreamed about meeting her as she is today.] When I heard the demo, it was just brilliant. I loved it. As a producer, I was just trying to bring in this kind of dreamy feel to the track. It has a floating quality, and that’s something I was leaning into, trying to put a soundtrack to that dream.
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