This Hell

Track 3 on Hold The Girl (Japanese Edition)

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“This Hell” is the lead single from Hold The Girl, a tongue in cheek pop song that “celebrates community and love in a time where the world seems hellish”, as Rina wrote on… Read More

May. 19, 20221 viewer76.6K views

This Hell Lyrics

[Intro]
Let's go, girls

[Verse 1]
Saw a poster on the corner opposite the motel
Turns out I'm going to Hell if I keep on being myself
Don't know what I did, but they seem pretty mad about it
God hates us? Alright then
Buckle up, at dawn, we're riding

[Pre-Chorus]
Walk a mile on these coals, busy cleansing my soul
Getting ready for the night
Damned for eternity, but you're coming with me
Into the afterlife

[Chorus]
This Hell is better with you
We're burning up together
Baby, that makes two
'Cause the Devil's wearing Prada
And loves a little drama, ooh-ooh
This Hell is better with you

[Post-Chorus]
With you
With you
Oh, with you
This Hell is better with you

[Verse 2]
Flame red carpet moment, posing for the paparazzi
Fuck what they did to Britney, to Lady Di and Whitney
Don't know why we're here, but might as well get down and dirty
That Satan's looking thirsty, not even he can hurt me

[Pre-Chorus]
Walk a mile on these coals, busy cleansing my soul
Getting ready for the night
Damned for eternity, but you're coming with me
Into the afterlife (Wow, that's hot)

[Chorus]
This Hell is better with you
We're burning up together, baby, that makes two
'Cause the Devil's wearing Prada
And loves a little drama, ooh-ooh
This Hell is better with you
This life gave us nothing to lose
We're going down together, got a ticket for two
'Cause the Devil's wearing Prada
And loves a little drama, ooh-ooh
This Hell is better with you

[Post-Chorus]
With you
With you
Oh, with you
(This Hell is better with you)

[Bridge]
Got my invitation to eternal damnation
Get in line, pass the wine, bitch
We're going straight to Hell
Got my invitation to eternal damnation
Get in line, pass the wine, bitch
We're going straight to Hell

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
This Hell is better with you
We're burning up together, baby, that makes two
'Cause the Devil's wearing Prada
And loves a little drama, ooh-ooh
This Hell is better with you

[Post-Chorus]
This Hell is better with you (I'm in this Hell with you)
This Hell is better with you (With you, with you)
This Hell is better with you (Ooh)
(This Hell is better with you)

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About

“This Hell” is the lead single from Hold The Girl, a tongue in cheek pop song that “celebrates community and love in a time where the world seems hellish”, as Rina wrote on Twitter.

The single started being teased in May 2022 towards the end of The Dynasty Tour, when pamphlets were sent out to journalists with the saying “RINA IS GOING TO HELL / AN INVITATION TO ETERNAL DAMNATION”.

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What did Rina Sawayama say about "This Hell"?

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Rina Sawayama

via Press Release

I had so much fun writing “This Hell.” The past couple of years I’ve been listening to lots of female country singers and wanted to write a euphoric and tongue-in-cheek country-pop song. Country music at its core to me represents comfort, brilliant storytelling and authentic expression of the writer’s reality. I’ve been dreaming of working with Paul Epworth my entire career so I knew it was meant to be when we finished this song in a day. I put in as many iconic pop culture moments as I can, but the song is more than that.

It’s an important song for me given the human rights that are being taken away from minorities at a rapid rate in the name of traditional religious beliefs, more specifically I was thinking about the rights being taken away from the LGBTQ community when I wrote this song. When the world tells us we don’t deserve love and protection, we have no choice but to give love and protection to each other. This Hell is better with you.

Is there a live performance of the song?