Young The Giant -Cough Syrup(In The Open)

Young The Giant  Eros (In The Open)

Colin Hilton's Ophelia is a dark reflection on fame, beauty, and the illusions that captivate us. Drawing on Shakespeare’s tragic muse, the song reimagines her as a modern idol — adored, exploited, and ultimately lost beneath the weight of her own image. It’s a meditation on how desire and innocence collide in a world that mistakes performance for truth.



OPHELIA
You stand like shadows on a bleached black chequered stage
Dance unspoken lines of love
Your voice like a lantern shines darkly through a cage
Conjuring words from a paperless age

Ophelia, ten thousand screaming girls will hide
Ophelia beneath this moral suicide
I've nothing to say to you you've caught their minds with beauty that's untrue 
Ophelia are you gonna break their hearts
And all that is left's a childhood memory

Each lyric burns a secret fire for a secret lust
Each twisted gown dressed to undress 
The world now scorns our fierce desire and turns to a cow girls past
Milking the moment to the last

Ophelia, ten thousand screaming girls will hide
Ophelia beneath this moral suicide
I've nothing to say to you you've caught their minds with beauty that's untrue 
Ophelia are you gonna break their hearts
You're gonna suppress their childhood memories

Ophelia, ten thousand screaming girls will hide
Ophelia beneath this moral suicide
I've nothing to say to you you've caught their minds with beauty that's untrue 
Ophelia are you gonna break their hearts
You're gonna suppress their childhood memories

Ophelia

Bonus Track: Untitled

Young The Giant -Waves (In The Open)

Young The Giant- Crystallized (In The Open)

I’m sipping on soda and coming in crazy
Over the water, as blue as a baby
And do I look like an F-14,
OCD,
A hurricane dream of the Navy

You’re burning bright white and coming in lonesome
Reading Bukowski down in the doldrums
And you look like a daisy chained
To your father’s name
And your war-torn brain
Dressed in poems

It’s an ocean
It’s American marriage
It’s watching our parents fumble their love
It’s self-absorption
It’s my anxious creation that I’m not enough
It’s a hand
On your back
It’s your dad
Green and black
But it’s owning this ourselves
And darlin’ it is nothing else

We’re tangled like angels and rolling down Blue Ridge
Igniting our souls as wax wings and heroin
And does this feel like a shooting star,
A burning car,
The highway tar on our footbed

Is it over
I promise I’m happy, it’s just all this happened
Like a coaster
Dropping you faster
Turning me backwards and back again
It’s a coat
‘Round your arms
It’s the cards
It’s our hearts
Coming closer, to something else
It’s a heaven, it’s a holy hell

I’m fearing my fate and falling like Titans
Through the blue in the air, through holes in horizons
And I’m screaming with arms outstretched for something to happen
But I am the master, I am the captain

The Master, The Captain

Recorded at ShoeBox Studios
Mastered by Kevin Kearney (xokk.net)

Lyrics:
I know I see you, Paper Moon
I feel like I have left too soon
And in this great goodbye we share a moment as one
I’ve reached the end, but I don’t feel like I’m done

And I’m still hiding, Paper Moon
And you’re still climbing, Paper Moon
And I won’t get choked up when you leave here tonight
I’ll see you when I get to the other side

You’re so ordinary, but you make me feel brand new
I’m so ordinary, but I can wait for you

I know I see you, Paper Moon
I feel like I have left too soon
And in this great goodbye we share a moment as one
Beneath the waves of a hot, setting sun

You’re so ordinary, but you make me feel brand new
I’m so ordinary, but I can wait for you

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PAPER MOON

recorded live at The Bruce Brunch with Tom Cunningham :)

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