Arguably the band’s poppiest song to date, ‘Instant History’ is the lead single from A Celebration of Endings. Despite the lukewarm fan reception, the song received much radio airplay in the UK and has been praised as a live track.
[Verse 1]
Dear God
Adjust my dreams for me
All I learned is instant history
Is this how
The surface will break?
Releasing the pressure
The horrors that await
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Hell hath no fury like a human born
Its only real if you can’t replace it
And now I’m losing all control
Why do I fear it?
[Chorus 1]
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
I love the sound when it breaks
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
[Verse 2]
Dear God
We’re shouting in the streets
‘Cause all our love is instant history
We could go
To any time or place
But the history’s a nightmare
I’m sure we’ll awake
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I got a fever in my bones
Gets me so high that I can taste it
And now I’m losing all control
Why do I fear it?
[Chorus 1]
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
I love the sound when it breaks
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
[Pre-Chorus]
Hell hath no fury like a human born
Its only real if you can’t replace it
And now I’m losing all control
Why do I fear it?
[Chorus 2]
This is the sound that we make
We only exist in the noise that we bring
This is the sound that we make
And we can't unlearn what we've learned
I love the sound when it breaks
We try to position our lives on a string
This is the sound that we make
And we can't unhear what we've heard
Instant History was written by Simon Neil & Ammar Malik & Steve Mac.
Instant History was produced by James Rushent & Biffy Clyro & Rich Costey & Steve Mac.
Biffy Clyro released Instant History on Thu Feb 20 2020.