Parties Lyrics
We're on the trampoline, I am imagining
How good it would be if you kissed me
Look up at the sky, say something like
"If I died tonight, would you miss me?"
[Chorus]
I don't know why I come to these parties anyway
The only thing that happens
Is I end up saying shit I shouldn't say
I don't know why I come to these parties anyway
Hiding all my feelings
You're the only reason that I came
[Verse 2]
Jump in the swimming pool with all my clothes on
You ask me what is wrong, and I ignore you
My skin is shivering, I am considering
Ruining everything, I adore you
The sun is coming up, let's watch it rise
Sitting by the pool with tears in our eyes
[Chorus]
I don't know why I come to these parties anyway
The only thing that happens
Is I end up saying shit I shouldn't say
I don't know why I come to these parties anyway
Hiding all my feelings
You're the only reason that I came
About
Parties is a song that originally was supposed to make it on his sophomore record Wrong Crowd, but didn’t. It is unknown if it will be on his third album but has been played live a few times before the release of Wrong Crowd.
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This is strangely quite a trivial song, but also quite dark. The inspiration lyrically was ‘Sitting by the pool/With tears in our eyes/I don’t know why/I come to these parties anyway’. The chorus is one that’d been knocking around for quite a long time—I think I even used to try it out at the occasional gig. The song became interesting to me when there was a sense of there being things not being said. There’s this immense amount of tension in the air of it. The lines, ‘Jump in the swimming pool/With all my clothes on/You ask me what is wrong/And I ignore you’—it’s kind of a weirdly anecdotal experience, but I spent quite a long time writing versions of that, which felt the most real to me. You jump in the swimming pool with your clothes on—and then there’s a sort of strange muted reaction both from someone else and then you. You don’t really acknowledge it and then it just sort of carries on. Again, there’s a slightly comical element to the song, but I was also attracted to the darkness of it.
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