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Caracal - Cheers to Love

from 10 for 10 by KittyWu Records

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"'Cheers to Love' is Caracal’s longest song, and perhaps one of their best. After all, it’s a track that exemplifies post-hardcore’s capacity for catharsis.
Across seven vivid and transformative minutes, Caracal runs the emotional gamut: calls for empathy, lamentations of pain, and declarations of the desperate need for life and love.

KC Meals’ honest, melodic vocals are matched and indeed uplifted by the dynamic guitar work by Gabriel De Souza and Field Teo, putting the song front and centre in Caracal’s body of work as a mature piece of songwriting that knows how to wield silence as a means to a climax's end.

'Cheers to Love' is an anthem, but it does not indulge in the tricks we come to expect from such songs: a predictable structure with a flimsy chorus you can tell coming, calls and responses, gang vocals. Rather, it distinguishes itself as an anthem for those who remain apart and alone."

- Karen Gwee (Bandwagon)

lyrics

Don’t we all have our frustrations, don’t we all want to learn some patience. Don’t we all want some attention, don’t we all wanna praise our existence. But it’s so tiring to feel the pain and it’s so painful to feel that it’s impossible to love again.

Oh my god I’m a stranger, to myself and nothings left for you. Oh my god I’m a sinner, against what the freaks call love. Oh my god I do not know love, I close my eyes to pretend it doesn’t hurt. Oh my god I do not know love, I open my eyes in hopes of finding you there. I close my eyes and I count to ten, I can never find a heart to settle in. Who’s watching, who’s watching you now, yea.

This is more captivating than the light, a light that doesn’t shine it doesnt ever shine. It gives a hope that dies. I wish i was alive. So go ahead and make me an offer, place your cards across the table. We’ve been here for too long, and this has got to stop. Nothing’s okay, I’ve been lying to you. Nothing’s okay, I’ve been putting on airs. I cannot trust myself, this has gone too far. Don’t we all just wana feel alive. So here’s to love and all the pain that it requires. So what is love, I just wanna feel alive yea.

credits

from 10 for 10, track released June 29, 2012
from Bear. Shark. Wolf. (2nd Edition), originally released June 29, 2012

Produced, engineered & mixed by Leonard Soosay at Snakeweed Studios, Singapore
Assistant engineer: Martin Kong
Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301, Australia

All lyrics written by K.C Meals, Martin Kong & Field Teo
All music written & performed by Caracal
Performance rights of all songs administered by Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS)

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