[Verse 1]
Living in a suitcase
Hanging from a shoe lace
Rabbit in a rat race
Fire in the safe space
Tears on the runway
Guess I feel some way
Make it up to you someday
[Pre-Chorus]
Sweat drips
Down from the ceiling
Familiar feeling
A lie that we all could believe in
Lovers dying of laughter
We’re natural disasters
What happens after the afters?
[Chorus]
Stuck in the notion
Of hiding emotion
There will be bad days
But maybe not always
Stuck in an ocean of
Hopeless emotion
Therе will be good days
But maybe not always
[Verse 2]
Leaning out thе window
Screaming out the info
Say you’re going nowhere
Well tell me when you get there
Alcoholic bloodline
Hooked straight to the grapevine
Fracture in your hairline
[Pre-Chorus]
And sweat drips
Down from the ceiling
Familiar feeling
A lie that we all could believe in
Lovers dying of laughter
We’re natural disasters
What happens after the afters?
[Chorus]
Stuck in the notion
Of hiding emotion
There will be bad days
But maybe not always
[Bridge]
And every sanctuary’s temporary
I saw a city in the clouds
And I’ve forgiven my contemporaries
Gonna make someone’s mother proud
[Solo]
[Chorus]
Stuck in the notion
Of hiding emotion
There will be bad days
But maybe not always
Stuck in an ocean of
Hopeless emotion
There will be good days
But maybe not always
The Notion was written by Fred MacPherson & Jed Cullen & Devonté Hynes.
The Notion was produced by Dimitri Tikovoï.
Spector released The Notion on Tue Aug 15 2023.
Fred Macpherson:
We started “The Notion” on a spare day we had in Liverpool during the Now or Whenever sessions. It’s been on a real journey since, with Jed coming up with these early Four Tet style guitar loops, which have a really hypnotic feel I love.
— via NME