Cover art for The Manifesto of Chromatica by Lady Gaga

The Manifesto of Chromatica

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The Manifesto of Chromatica Lyrics

[Spoken Monologue]
When I was younger, I was at some point, born.
I grew in both IQ and EQ and as that happened I discovered that I was living in two realities at once.
They fought all the time and yet I made space for both of them for a reason I can't explain.
One reality I experienced was my Earth reality. The day, today, painting of what I was taught was my natural state in life.
At the time I also experienced a dream simultaneously and this dream was in combat with my Earth reality at all times.
A vision where I perform my thoughts for the world, a world where I mattered in a different way.
A world where I was valued for different things.
And in this world I was kind and that kindness spread through people, through sound.
This was the birth of Chromatica.

Love is an element on Chromatica, like earth, wind, fire, water.
It's a natural force and it's the only way that I can organize this super organism that is the Earth, it's by making it one whole thing.
Where time and linear structure don't matter, they don't exist.
We are all love.
I am love.
So it's everything around us.
It's how we work.
It's the thing we both initiate and respond to.
It's why everything happens, both good and bad.
It's the only way that I can make things simple.
And why shouldn't it be simple?
I breathe in and out love.
I don't believe it to be a choice other than I choose to breathe.
That is Chromatica.
It is how I do hard things.
It's neither right nor wrong nor is it greater or less than any other perspective on life.
No one thing is greater than another.
Kindness rules all things.
It simply is and it's mine.
You can have it too, though.
My best friend says "Sharing is caring" but we both know that I don't need to share your perspective with you for us both to care.
The Manifesto of Chromatica it's never-ending, I cannot finish it here.
It would be declaring I would never make music or be Lady Gaga again, which would mean I would stop being myself.
This manifesto finale marks the new beginning of my life.
One where I acknowledge that sound is my life force and that Lady Gaga is the mystery that carries it.
Chromatica can't end, it's how I make sense of things.
That's what you should tell people if they ask you what it is.
And for what is worth I think we all need that to make sense of things even if at times it feels absurd.

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The Manifesto of Chromatica is a series of short videos featured in the Spotify playlist “Welcome to Chromatica” curated by Lady Gaga, in which she shares her personal inspiration for the album.

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May 29, 2020
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