The title track of Lykke Li’s fourth record depicts breaking off a relationship as bittersweet. It follows “sex money feelings die,” where the Swedish songstress laments a vicious cycle that breeds detachment.
[Verse 1]
Open your eyes, I'm right in front of you
Open your eyes
Open your eyes, I'm walking out on you for the last time
[Pre-Chorus]
I keep my heart achin'
Why do we keep fakin'?
[Chorus]
I was only lyin' when I looked in your eyes
I'm cryin' diamonds like a river inside
And it's so sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
I was only lyin' when I looked in your eyes
Now I'm lyin' with you one last time
And it's so sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
[Verse 2]
Don't turn around
I'm not the one for you
Don't turn around
[Pre-Chorus]
I keep my heart vacant
Why, don’t have the guts to break it
[Chorus]
I was only lyin' when I looked in your eyes
I'm cryin' diamonds like a river inside
And it's so sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
I was only lyin' when I looked in your eyes
Now I'm lyin' with you one last time
And it's so sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
[Post-Chorus]
So sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
[Bridge]
Our love was a slow-oh-oh-oh dance (slow-oh-oh-oh)
Slow-oh-oh-oh, I dance, but I don’t feel it
[Chorus]
Darlin', I was only lyin' when I looked in your eyes
I'm cryin' diamonds like a river inside
And it's so sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
I was only lyin' when I looked in your eyes
Now I'm lyin' with you one last time
And it's so sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
[Post-Chorus]
So sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
So sad, so sexy
so sad so sexy was written by Malay & Andrew Wyatt & Emile Haynie & Jeff Bhasker & Ilsey & Lykke Li.
so sad so sexy was produced by Malay & Jeff Bhasker & Emile Haynie.
Lykke Li released so sad so sexy on Fri Jun 08 2018.
In an interview with TimesTalks, Lykke Li said:
I’ve always had a complicated relationship to being a woman, and what it means to be sexy. It feels like that always belonged to another type of woman or the way that we view women in America. Like, what sexy means, it’s something very fake. You know...