What Was That

English translation

A place in the city, a chair and a bed.

I cover up all the mirrors, I can't see myself yet.

I wear smoke like a wedding veil.

Make a meal I won't eat.

Step out into the street, alone in a sea.

It comes over me. Oh, I'm missing you.

Yeah, I'm missing you, and all the things we used to do. MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up.

We kissed for hours straight. Well, baby, what was that?

I remember saying then, "This is the best cigarette of my life. " Well, I want you just like that.

Into your hands we're in a sandstorm, and it knocks me out.

I didn't know then that you'd never be enough. Oh, since I was seventeen, I gave you everything.

Now, we wake from a dream. Well, baby, what was that?

What was that?

Baby, what was that?

Do you know you're still with me?

When I'm out with my friends,

I stare at their painted faces. They talk current affairs.

You had to know this was happening.

You weren't feeling my heat.

When in blue light, damn, baby, so bright, I face reality.

I try, I try to let, to let whatever has to pass through me, pass through. But this is staying a while.

I know it might not let me go.

MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up. We kissed for hours straight.

Well, baby, what was that?

I remember saying then, "This is the best cigarette of my life. " Well, I want you just like that.

Into your hands we're in a sandstorm, and it knocks me out. I didn't know then that you'd never be enough.

Oh, since I was seventeen, I gave you everything. Now, we wake from a dream.

Well, baby, what was that?

What was that?

'Cause I want you just like that.

In blue light, I can make it all right.

What was that? In blue light, I can make it all right.

Baby, what was that?