wonderful life Lyrics
Hey, uh, are we rolling?
Yeah, okay; no it’s, that’s fine
I read a fun fact about the brain and
How it starts to deteriorate when
We get to 27 or thereabouts (Yeah)
It got me thinking about my head
And what I can do to help stimulate it
Makes me sad, but I've forgotten what I’m on about
(Ah!)
[Verse 1: Oli Sykes]
Looked on the bright side, got keratitis
And you can't sit there unless you’re righteous
I wear a happy face like I’m Ed Gein
I feel all numb now, is that a feeling?
Like a plastic boxed orange with no peel on
I wanna waste, I wanna waste, I wanna waste away
(Yeah!)
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
'Lone, getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh, what a wonderful life
Oi, Debbie Downer, what's your problem?
Don't wanna be here, still, call shotgun
You got the FOMO coursing through my veins (Yo, yay, yo, yay)
(This is) Not a drill, no, this is the real world
Domesticated, still, a little feral
Well, don't you know to chew with your mouth closed?
(And it's all gone wrong!)
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
'Lone, getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife (Yeah!)
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh, what a wonderful life
(Oh, what a wonderful life)
(Oh, what a wonderful life)
Alright
[Bridge: Dani Filth & Oli Sykes]
I got a type 2 kinda thirstiness
A far-out otherworldliness
And one day this might hurt me less
But everybody knows I'm still down
Don't tell me what the butcher does
There's no need for the obvious
So ugly, still, it's kinda lush
But everybody knows I made vows
Left feet on the podium
Can't think of an alternate
And hell yeah, I'm the awkwardest
But everybody knows I got bounce
About
amo’s second single, “wonderful life,” has an ironic and dark vibe to it. The track shows a troubled narrator barely holding on to life but constantly referring to it as wonderful. The narrator, who seems to hold a dark and depressing view of the world around him, still enjoys the mundane and often gloomy aspects of everydayness.
The song features Dani Filth, lead singer of the black metal band Cradle of Filth (he was also featured in the single artwork for the song).
Q&A
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The lyrics for “wonderful life” were done freestyle in the studio. It’s stream of consciousness type stuff about getting old and out touch, being off tour and loving the mundane things in life, I guess because it’s so novel when your life is mainly spent on the road, things like weekly shops and mowing your lawn are quite nice- people who spend most of their lives away from home can surely relate. I guess on top of that there’s this inner crisis I have of being a boring person but still having a desire to go wild inside me every now and again, but yeah, all in all, it’s mostly word vomit, but also some of my favourite lyrics. The beginning is 100% legit and the irony was just too good, so we left it like that.
It’s the heaviest song on the record. The song’s about those kind of days that you get when no one’s worried about where you are. You don’t have to be anywhere and you get a day to be by yourself. It’s kind of like finding happiness in mundane tasks or just literally doing nothing. If I lived where I lived and I weren’t in a band, I would move, because it’s rubbish. But because I’m on tour all the time in different countries, and I come back, there’s just something great about going and doing normal stuff, where most people’s idea of a holiday is going and doing all this different stuff, for me, it’s doing absolutely nothing.
Last year, me and Jordan [Fish] went and worked with Fred Durst on a Limp Bizkit album. It just didn’t work out, to be honest. He just didn’t show up most of the time. Lovely guy, but I don’t think he was ready to make an album. I think he was pushed into it a bit, like, his managers and people said ‘These are the guys you want to work with.’ So we gave him all these ideas and I mean it was just bad from day one, to be honest. It’s one of them things, looking back, where it wasn’t meant to be. One good thing came out of it: me and Jordan wrote this riff and I one day decided the tempo and key matched almost perfectly with the song. So we de-Bizkit‘d it a bit, and it ended up sounding pretty sick.
- 2.MANTRA
- 4.in the dark
- 5.wonderful life
- 6.ouch
- 7.medicine
- 10.fresh bruises
- 11.mother tongue
- 12.heavy metal