Clarity Lyrics
High dive into frozen waves
Where the past comes back to life
Fight fear for the selfish pain
It was worth it every time
Hold still right before we crash
'Cause we both know how this ends
Our clock ticks till it breaks your glass
And I drown in you again
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause you are the piece of me
I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly
Still fight and I don't know why
[Chorus]
If our love is tragedy
Why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity
Why are you my clarity?
[Drop]
[Chorus]
If our love is tragedy
Why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity
Why are you my clarity?
Walk on through a red parade
And refuse to make amends
It cuts deep through our ground
And makes us forget all common sense
Don't speak as I try to leave
'Cause we both know what we'll choose
If you pull, then I'll push too deep
And I'll fall right back to you
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause you are the piece of me
I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly
Still fight and I don't know why
[Chorus]
If our love is tragedy
Why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity
Why are you my clarity?
[Build]
[Drop]
Why are you my clarity?
Why are you my remedy?
Why are you my clarity?
Why are you my remedy
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I started the song probably a year before it was finished and another year or half-year before it got released and another year and a half — or year — before it won a GRAMMY. So it was a really long process and it started with a little clip without a vocal. I did the job and I felt like there was a need for a vocal that just lifts the entire song. […] So I kinda rewrote the song around the vocal and we tried a bunch of singers out and I just didn’t love it — I was actually really close not even putting the song on the album, because I was not happy with the way the vocal sounded. A few days before deadline, my manager showed me Foxes — just her own music — and I was like “Oh, that’s exactly the kinda voice I want for Clarity!” So we reached out to them and like two days later she was in London, she went into the studio to record the vocal. We had like a 15 minute Skype conversation and I explained everything I wanted and the way I wanted it and then they sent over the vocal to me — I was in LA — and then I finished the song last mintue, handed it over and then it happened to be a song that changed my life.
I think Clarity was a song that had a change in culture because it connected the huge EDM world, with thousands of people at every show, with the pop world, the radio, tv — I think it wasn’t quite as connected before. […] That would be the nicest thing to look back to in 10 years and see “Wow, this actually did inspire an era of electronic music,” because after that, every pop song happened to sound like an EDM song.
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- 2.Shave It Up
- 3.Spectrum
- 4.Lost at Sea
- 5.Clarity
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