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Cigarettes After Sex – Apocalypse lyrics
[Verse 1]
You leapt from crumbling bridges watching cityscapes turn to dust
Filming helicopters crashing in the ocean from way above


[Chorus]
Got the music in you baby
Tell me why
Got the music in you baby
Tell me why
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye


[Verse 2]
Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms
You’ve been hiding them in hollowed out pianos left in the dark


[Chorus]
Got the music in you baby
Tell me why
Got the music in you baby
Tell me why
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye


[Bridge]
Your lips
My lips
Apocalypse

Your lips
My lips
Apocalypse

Go and sneak us through the rivers flood is rising up on your knees
Oh please
Come out and haunt me
I know you want me
Come out and haunt me


[Verse 3]
Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids
Sleeping soundly with the locket that she gave you clutched in your fist


[Chorus]
Got the music in you baby
Tell me why
Got the music in you baby
Tell me why
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye
You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye

[Outro]
Oh
When you're all alone
I will reach for you
When you're feeling low
I will be there too
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    I think many parts of this song can be interpreted as a person trying to cope with emotional trauma by desperately trying to hold on to every last good piece of their old life, even when all that’s left is a broken crumbling memory. Hence the apocalyptic theme, basically their memories are like an abandoned broken world but still they would rather live there than the present. “ You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye” Means this person is still caught up in past events and although these events hurt them- it has become so comfortable and familiar that they can’t let it go. “Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms
    You’ve been hiding them in hollowed out pianos left in the dark” means they’re keeping every good memory in a safe place because it’s the only good thing they have at that moment. In an apocalypse, i’d imagine i’d want to take any thing that brings me light in a dull world and keep it safe and hide it from the rest of the world. “Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids, sleeping soundly with the locket that she gave you clutched in your fist“ I think this line introduces a person who was a part of those memories and that past life, coming back into their life. This person is a sweet reminder of all of the good of the past and they secretly hope that they will come back into their life. So, when it says “Your lips, My lips, Apocalypse” i think that means, since we’ve already established that “apocalypse” represents their past memories and old life, that when this person comes back into their life and they develop feelings for each other and kiss, all of the past memories come flooding back; whether this is a warm feeling or bittersweet is up for interpretation. Overall i think this is about holding on to the comforting things in your past and reconnecting with it.
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    To me it has a meaning of someone you love and spend time with like if you’ve known each other since you were kids almost like a soulmate loves someone else and you know you’ll never be loved by them no matter what and you slowly see them fade away from you which causes an apocalypse in your mental state which is exactly what was happening to me when I found this song
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    It’s about a lovers who are in loved but distant keep them apart,They were in love since they were kids,like a childhood first love,but the girl has to go away because her parents moved to another city because of family problems that must be divorced.She alone cannot decide whether she wants to stay or not,even after she left the boy is still in love that is why he’s saying “got the music in you,tell me why” he cannot moved on and the lines “your lips,my lips apocalypse means it’s impossible to kiss,it’s like the end of the world (world destruction) and the guy is so in love that is why he said ‘cmon and haunt me’ i know you want me’ his memories are still haunting him every night,that is deep and dark.
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    Its about that long lost passionate love that you couldn't get over with. A feeling that you know your inability to be together and it will apocalypse when your lips touch; i.e it's quite impossible. It's hauntingly sad . It is the sound of my deepest, darkest feeelings. I don't know what else to say!
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    reminds me of someone I recently met and that just my POV. He was an ideal type for me - we could read each other's mind and relate a lot of thoughts and experience. I realized that this feeling is beyond skin-deep. He was married and never complained anything on his marriage life, I guessed he's happy, while I am dating a guy. We both are reciprocal but never discussed about any possibilities. I don't take his joke seriously, though I got carried away with that sometimes.

    I wish he was mine but I knew my roots, but I just felt happy knowing him. The butterflies in stomach, the crazy chuckles reading his texts and the pounding heart every time we stumbled upon into each other. That feels like a boy crush t school, and it shall pass by. Felt that having half of him is better that none, but that sounds so wrong and immoral. Here I am writing in this post anonymously bcus it's weekend and he's busy spending time with his family.
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    Okay so here's my take on this. Now. the main theme, obviously, is forbidden love. More specifically, a forbidden kiss which is evidently highlighted in the part 'Your lips, My lips.... Apocalypse'. However, the backstory is much more profound. The lyrics revolve around childhood lovers who have been kept apart due to tragic circumstances. Probably, the girl's mother died when she was young and her father married the boy's mother which is highlighted here, 'Sleeping soundly with the locket that she gave you clutched in your fist'. Deriving from this, is the unseen distance set between them as they became step-siblings, 'Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids'. The girl here, has her own uncertainties. She has not been one to go against the rules and is terrified of the possible outcomes of expressing her most intimate feelings. She feels comfortable keeping things as they are. 'You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye'. The girl's feelings here have been collated with a piano. As of present, she has hid her feelings from the outside world 'You’ve been hiding them in hollowed out pianos left in the dark' probably due to some inter-relation with her mother, 'Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms'. The boy is not unfamiliar to her feelings and the lines 'Got the music in you baby' along with 'I know you want me' shows that he is able to see through her made-up exterior. He is trying to persuade her to open up about their feelings along with a paradoxical phrase 'haunt me' which portrays that even death will not prove sufficient to yield an end to their suffering.The opening of the song tells us about the destructive state of the secret.
    'You leapt from crumbling bridges watching cityscapes turn to dust' interprets that the girl has expelled her secret resulting in chaotic reactions. 'Filming helicopters crashing' refers to the disagreement within their akin.In the outro, the boy is promising and reassuring her that he will stay by her side and they will get through the obstacles hand-in-hand.,
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    To me this song is about your relationship coming to an end and your not ready to let go. The person narrating is still trying to give it another chance. But as said In the song “your lips my lips apocalypse” meaning they are just so beautifully wrong for each other
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    to me it seems to be about a man being in love with this woman but she’s married and he is trying to let her know but he can’t “you’ve been locked in here forever, and I just can’t say goodbye” he always loved her and when she got cuffed he fell into this deep depressive matter trying to get her to notice him. “sharing secrets with each other since you were kids” always had a jealousy for the girl and whoever she loved.
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    Anyone else think this is Lucifer singing to God, Jesus and the world in general at points and the love is so sincere that one could stop looking at it as good vs. evil and just know that it is what a product of love and over time wars, having to take losses, see his holy father's son die on the cross "with the locket that she gave you clutched in your fist" knowing that this is still based on love and that this is all heavy examples of the suffering, joy, reflection, devastation, spiritual growth and never ending duality of love itself.
    "Your lips my lips... Apocalypse"
    I reserve the right to have my head all-the-way up my ass since I can't confirm this anywhere but just makes me love the song more.
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