In an interview with Exclaim!, Joe Goddard spoke about the band’s “Clear Blue Skies,” on which he sings lead:
It is definitely about kind of broad, quite serious things — about whether there’s value in love in a universe the size that it is.
I’m kind of atheist, so I find it hard to find meaning s...
[Verse 1: Joe Goddard]
What does it matter?
A dream of dust or a dream of life
In a universe of almost infinite size
Where is my dreaming?
And why does it always return to your eyes?
Tell me, what is the need?
And what am I to you?
Just a speck, just an ember
Dancing through
[Chorus 1: Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor]
I'm splitting at the seams, deciphering my dreams
And trying to make sense out of entropy
Tell me, what do you do when everything you thought you knew
Is dissolving in the air, disappearing from view?
[Verse 2: Joe Goddard]
What kind of magic did you use?
But how did you do it: make me need you?
And if I call myself a rational man
I know that this means nothing at all
But when I reach out, I grasp nothing
I know that I must fall
[Chorus 2: Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor]
Into clear blue skies
I lost my disguise
Into clear blue skies
I lost my disguise
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro: Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor]
Clear blue skies
Clear blue skies
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Clear blue skies
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Close your eyes
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Clear blue skies
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Close your eyes
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Clear blue skies
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Close your eyes
(Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?
Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting?)
Clear Blue Skies was produced by Philippe Zdar & Hot Chip.
Hot Chip released Clear Blue Skies on Fri Jun 21 2019.