UGH!

Album: I Like It When You Sleep... (2015)
Charted: 42
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Songfacts®:

  • This funky, stripped-down track finds The 1975 frontman Matt Healy reflecting on his relationship with coke. Consumed by paranoia as he comes down from a high, he complains the drug is not helping him but still has no wish to quit. Healy told The Guardian: "That song is me being flippant about cocaine: 'Stop pacing round the room using other people's faces as a mirror for you.'"
  • The titular exclamation doesn't actually show up in the song's lyrics.

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  • Matt from Stillwater The song does feature the exclamation "ugh" within the first two lines of the songs.
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