Life Itself

Glass Animals' first single off their sophomore album How to Be a Human Being features a more boisterous, raw, percussion-driven sound. According to lead singer Dave Bayley, it’s about “a guy who was born a bit strange, and struggles to become part of society. Because of that, he spends more time alone in his own head, getting stranger, and it becomes an awful cycle of doom.” The guy, Chuck Rogers, has a fictional website that calls back to Internet days of Geocities and MySpace, in all of its eyebleeding glory.

[Verse 1] Daddy was dumb, said that I’d be something special Brought me up tough but I was a gentle human Said that he loved each of my two million freckles When I grew up was gonna be a superstar [Pre-Chorus] I can't get a job so I live with my mum I take her money but not quite enough I sit in the car and I listen to static She said I look fat but I look fantastic [Chorus] Come back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Come back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe Come back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Come back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe [Verse 2] I'm waking up, lost in boxes outside Tesco Look like a bum sipping codeine Coca-Cola Thought that I was northern Camden's own Flash Gordon Sonic ray gun, gonna be a superstar [Pre-Chorus] I can't get a job so I live with my mum I take her money but not quite enough I make my own fun in grandmama's basement Said I look mad, she said I look wasted [Chorus] Cut back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Cut back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe Cut back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Cut back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe [Instrumental break] [Chorus] Cut back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Cut back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe Cut back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Cut back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe Cut back down to my knees Gotta get back, gotta get free Cut back down to my knees Lean back now, lean back and breathe