During her Beats 1 Radio show about her album, Lorde said of “Sober II (Melodrama)”:
I kind of see these two songs as a big journey of an evening, of a party. I love the idea of Sober [being] the party and Sober II is like ‘the lights are on’. How heartbreaking is it when the lights are on, after...
[Verse 1]
You asked if I was feeling it, I'm psycho high
Know you won't remember in the morning when I speak my mind
Lights are on and they've gone home, but who am I?
Oh, how fast the evening passes
Cleaning up the champagne glasses
We told you this was melodrama
(Oh, how fast the evening passes
Cleaning up the champagne glasses)
Our only wish is melodrama
(Oh, how fast the evening passes
Cleaning up the champagne glasses)
[Verse 2]
And the terror and the horror
When we wonder why we bother, whoa, whoa
And the terror and the horror
God, I wonder why we bother, whoa, whoa
All the glamour and the trauma
And the fuckin' melodrama, whoa, whoa
All the gun fights and the lime lights
And the holy sick divine nights, whoa
(Holy sick divine nights, whoa)
They'll talk about us, all the lovers
How we kiss and kill each other, whoa
They'll talk about us, and discover
How we kissed and killed each other, whoa
(And we'll tell them)
[Refrain]
We told you this was melodrama
You wanted something that we offer
We told you this was melodrama
You wanted something that we offer
We told you this was melodrama
You wanted something that we offer
We told you this was melodrama
You wanted something that we offer
[Outro]
We told you this was melodrama
We told you this was melodrama
We told you this was melodrama
We told you this was melodrama
We told you this was melodrama
Sober II (Melodrama) was written by Jack Antonoff & Lorde.
Sober II (Melodrama) was produced by Lorde & Ging & Jack Antonoff.
Lorde released Sober II (Melodrama) on Fri Jun 16 2017.
That song is interesting, it’s the second part of one of the first songs that we wrote where I really started to understand what the album would be, which was “Sober.” The two of them kind of came around the same time, this was April of last year — I remember Jack [Antonoff] and I went out to Coache...