Damon Albarn has said before how heroin makes him ‘incredibly productive’. “Caramel” details his struggle to remain functioning as an artist in face of his high-profile breakup with Elastica’s Justine Frischmann by appealing to the drug (the word ‘caramel’ is reference to the color of heated heroin)...
[Verse 1]
I've got to get over
I've got to get over
I've got to get better
Will love you forever
I've got to find genius (caramel)
I've got to get better (caramel)
I've got to stop smoking (caramel)
I've got to get better (caramel, caramel)
[Verse 2]
Where is the magic?
I've got to get better
Oh lord, give me magic
I'll love you forever
I've got to find mounts hill (caramel)
And live by the mountain (caramel)
I'll love you forever (caramel)
You are (caramel)
And you are (caramel)
(Caramel, caramel, caramel, caramel)
[Outro]
Bye (bye), babe (bye) [x15]
Low, low, low, low
Bye (bye), babe (bye)
[x4]
Low, low, low, low
Low, low, low, low (low) [x3]
Low, low, low, low [x5]
Caramel was written by Damon Albarn & Dave Rowntree & Alex James & Graham Coxon.
Caramel was produced by William Orbit.