Crooked Young Lyrics
Believe in no one!
[Verse]
Hallelujah, well, I'm saved
Just a dozen steps and 28 days
It's a miracle, I'll be born again
With the Lord as my shepherd, I will find a way
[Pre-Chorus]
Fuck your faith, no one's gonna save you
Fuck your faith!
[Chorus]
There's no hope for us, we speak in tongues
Blacker than the sun, no death can't touch
The crooked young
There's no hope for us, we speak in tongues
Blacker than the sun, no death can't touch
The crooked young, the crooked young!
[Post-Chorus]
We don't sleep, we don't eat
We speak in tongues
We can't die, we're dead inside
No death can't touch the crooked young
Believe in no one but yourself
The faceless won't save you
The clouds won't hear your fucking prayers
There's no hope for us, we speak in tongues
Blacker than the sun, no death can't touch
There's no hope for us, we speak in tongues
Blacker than the sun, no death can't touch
There's no hope for us, we speak in tongues
Blacker than the sun, no death can't touch
[Outro]
Hallelujah, I'm saved
It's a miracle, thank you, Jesus
Hallelujah, I'm saved
Fuck your faith, fuck your faith!
About
“Crooked Young” mainly talks about Oliver Sykes' ketamine rehabilitation.
In a track-by-track interview with MetalFuckingRocks, vocalist Oli Sykes explained:
Jordan [keyboardist] really wanted to do something like “It Never Ends” [from 2010’s There Is A Hell…], and we thought that was one of the songs that worked best on the last album, including that addition of an orchestra. We thought we could carry that on, so we wanted to keep that vibe. It’s still one of the heaviest tracks on the record, and it’s got a great chorus. I’m really excited to play that one live.
In another interview, bassist Matt Kean explained:
This song came about after we all went to go see a film—I forget which film it was, but it was a super epic film it had like a huge string section in it—and we thought we need to write a song that uses cinematic strings section and is super epic sounding. So then Jordan went home that night and came back in the morning with this huge, middle string section, so we were like “Let’s use this!” and then we wrote the song around that section.
Q&A
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