“Thea” is the sixth track on Goldfrapp’s sixth studio album, Tales of Us, and was released as the only commercial single from the album on 24 March 2014.
As with the other songs on the album, “Thea” is a self-contained narrative told from a specific character’s point of view. And as with many of th...
[Verse 1]
Across a starless sky
It cuts like tiny knives
Rain beating down
Rain beating down
[Verse 2]
Blunt uneasy glares
They've nothing on you or me yet
Nights here alone
Nights here are cursed
[Pre-Chorus]
There's wild in your eyes, there's a light
Oh Thea, there's a feeling
It's cruel and its dark in this town
Are they mad, were we dreaming?
[Chorus]
Tender and torn
Won't leave you now
[Verse 3]
Wanted you so bad
I feel like I'm caught with no air
Wanted you gone
Wanted you there
[Pre-Chorus]
There's wild in your eyes, there's a light
Oh Thea, there's a feeling
It's cruel and its dark in this town
Are they mad, were we dreaming?
[Chorus]
Tender torn sundown on Isthmus
It's all for you oh hungry moon
It's a long long night of waiting
All for you, oh hungry moon
[Chorus]
Tender, torn, sundown on Isthmus
All for you, oh hungry moon
It's a long long night of waiting
I want you there I want you gone
Thea was written by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory.
Thea was produced by Goldfrapp.
I woke up in the middle of the night with that tune in my head,” recounts Alison [Goldfrapp]. “I was under the duvet, recording it into my device, and I was” – she taps her chest – “doing this to keep time, and the the duvet was going” – (crunch, crunch) – “so we kept that. It’s actually the duvet,...