Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen
“Kollage” is, in her own words, Carly’s personal favourite song from The Loveliest Time, the companion project for her fifth studio album, The Loneliest Time.
Carly first teased and shared a snippet of the song through her Instagram on July 17. She said in the post’s caption that it is a very frag...
[Verse 1]
Tryin' to paint a picture of the sun with all its flowers
Reachin' closer past the surface
Like I'm slowly gettin' closer to you
Livin' with uncertainty like nothin' really matters
Passed the future on my way to work
And found myself back in bed with you
[Pre-Chorus]
Give it all some time
Paralyzed devotion
Give it all some time
I've been in the dark
Paralyzed in motion
Lost in wintertime
[Chorus]
Did I do it to myself?
Hard to know for sure
Did I hurt somebody else?
'Cause you're the one thing
Nothin' really matters
But it matters if it matters to you
It's hard to know for sure
But I believe you're always in my corner
I did it to myself
I did it to you
[Verse 2]
I can be enchanted by the simple things
Like watch the way the fire's burnin'
All my letters, all the words I tried to forget
Leavin' you was certainly the hardest part of all
But I was livin' like a servant
To a secret I was tryna protect (Mm)
[Pre-Chorus]
Give it all some time
Paralyzed devotion
Give it all some time
I'm still in the dark
Paralyzed emotions
Lost in wintertime
[Chorus]
Did I do it to myself?
It's hard to know for sure
Did I hurt somebody else?
'Cause you're the one thing
Nothin' really matters
But it matters if it matters to you
It's hard to know for sure
But I believe you're always in my corner
I did it to myself
I did it to you
[Post-Chorus]
Did I do it to myself?
Kollage was written by Carly Rae Jepsen & Patrik Berger.
Kollage was produced by Patrik Berger.
Carly Rae Jepsen released Kollage on Fri Jul 28 2023.
My first instinct when I hurt is to pull away from everyone I love, thinking I’m protecting them. Kollage is a song about how wrong I was to think this helped anyone.
—via Instagram
It was important to me that “Kollage” was on this album, even though it is a darker offering. It’s more melancholy and deals with realizing that when you hurt yourself, you’re hurting the people that love you. It’s about coming to that place of owning your shit. Part of self-love is self-acceptance...
It felt nice to be talking about something a little bit more weighted than I previously used to think pop songs were allowed to be. I think Rostam and Patrik both have this way, which is why I love collaboration, of just bringing out a more confessional side of me. I think Rostam has a way of just l...
Prior to the song’s release, Carly shared a crossword puzzle, with a hint for every track of The Loveliest Time. The hint for “Kollage” was:
Fragments of life pieced together to make new art. (But spelled with K ‘cause that was how the OG file name was labeled and now anything else looks weird).