In an interview with Rolling Stone, Grian Chatten said about Roman Holiday:
“I think it’s about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. […] The reason I use the word “embrace,” trying to talk about this, is because in a sense, especially when you surround yourselves or almos...
[Verse 1]
Baby, come on, get stoned, get stoned
Get inside it, inside it, inside it, inside
Get along, get along, get alone, get alone, get
Heard about the week on the Dalymount seat, yeah
Baby, come on, before the going gets gone
Heard you lied to the Major, won't be long
Well, I wish upon a wedding for a picture in the star
When they knock for ya don't forget who you are
Skinty Fia
[Verse 2]
Baby, come on, whose sidе are you on?
I don't wanna see the queen
I already sing hеr song
While they're snuffing out hopes, and they're blotting out suns
They claim to know the form in which genius comes, yeah
Baby, come on, get your high heels on
It’s the body is cold, it's the course is run
What artless living all this soft pain thrills
What calamities usher all our brilliance to the hills!
Can you feel it?
[Verse 3]
Baby, come on, get stoned, get stoned
Get inside it, inside it, inside it, inside
Get along, get along, get alone, get alone, get
Was it the weed or the moment that stoned ye?
Baby, come on, get the hourglass on
I will dart into town, no, I won’t be long
If the talk's getting cold, we'll be chancing none
Well, you know what I’m saying, our day will come
Can you feel it?
Won't be long
Can you feel it?
Roman Holiday was written by Carlos O’Connell & Conor Deegan III & Conor Curley & Tom Coll & Grian Chatten.
Roman Holiday was produced by Dan Carey.
Fontaines D.C. released Roman Holiday on Tue Apr 19 2022.
Grian Chatten:
I think it’s about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. I’m trying to kind of convince my girlfriend to come out and enjoy this… it’s like adventure, you know what I mean? The reason I use the word “embrace,” trying to talk about this, is because in a sens...
The whole thing was coloured by my experience in London. I moved to London to be with my fiancée, and as an Irish person living in London, as one of a gang of Irish people, there was that kind of searching energy, there was this excitement, there was a kind of adventure—but also this very, very tigh...