“Oh Caroline” is the fifth song included in The 1975’s fifth studio album Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
The track has been described as a “deceivingly dark melodic pop anthem” and the lyrics are themed around “all-consuming love”.
On the song’s Spotify listing, Matty Healy claims there is no...
[Verse 1]
I've been suicidal
You've been gone for weeks
If I'm undecided, will you decide for me?
Baby, I'll do anythin' that you wanna
I'll try anythin' that you wanna
I'll try
'Cause you're on my mind
[Chorus]
Oh-oh, Caroline
I wanna get it right this time
'Cause you're always on my mind
Oh-oh, Caroline (Oh-oh)
[Verse 2]
Getting suicidal?
It's honestly not for me
I'm gettin' on my nerves by gettin' on my knees
Getting cucked, I don't need it
The place I want to be
Is somewhere in your heart
Somewhere guaranteed
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause baby, I'll do anything that you wanna
I'll try anything that you wanna
I'll find myself in the moonlight
'Cause baby, I want everything that you wanna
And I've triеd to just be me like a thousand timеs
But you're on my mind
[Chorus]
Oh-oh, Caroline
I wanna get it right this time
'Cause you're always on my mind (You're always on my mind)
Oh-oh, Caroline (Oh-oh)
[Bridge]
Oh, I've tried to find
Another name a thousand times
But the only one that rhymes (Always on my mind)
Is, "Oh, Caroline" (Oh)
Just give me one more chance tonight
'Cause I don't want to waste my life without you, baby
No, I don't want to waste my life without you, baby
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh-oh, Caroline
Get it right this time
Always on my mind
I wanna get it right
But you're on my mind
[Chorus]
Oh-oh, Caroline
I wanna get it right this time
'Cause you're always on my mind (You're always on my mind)
Oh-oh, Caroline (Oh-oh)
Oh Caroline was written by Matty Healy & George Daniel & Jamie Squire & Ilsey & Benjamin Francis Leftwich & Jimmy Hogarth.
Oh Caroline was produced by George Daniel & Matty Healy & Jack Antonoff.
The 1975 released Oh Caroline on Fri Oct 14 2022.
The chorus of this song came first—‘Oh Caroline/I wanna get it right this time/’Cos you’re always on my mind’—and it just felt really, really universal. I was like, ‘OK, this doesn’t have to be about me. It doesn’t have to be “I was in Manchester in my skinny jeans.”’ You don’t need to have lived a...
It’s an invented character, where the cadence really mattered. It couldn’t be ‘Oh Linda" or “Oh Jane”, you had to have a 3 syllable name that really works. I knew what the song was about, I had felt that about someone before and I got to write an episodic, mini movie about the subject. It turned out...