Fratellis, The - Laughing Gas Lyrics

The lines "I’ll see what I can do/ To paint your grey skies blue" are just so comforting to hear whenever I listen to this song.

Love this song so much, its such a happy tune!!!

"There’s always this: how do we get rid of it? And I stopped trying to get ride of it, I tried every drug they gave me, I tried every therapist they gave me, and eventually just saw the hilarity of that. Why am I expending all this energy? It’s there. It’s obviously OK that it’s there, because it’s there. It’s not an abomination, it’s not wrong… It can be unpleasant but once you do that, the sense of freedom is limitless. You’re then free to be depressed and you’ll no longer spend any more time on it. If it comes, it comes."
-Jon Fratelli.

I cried reading these words from him recently. I have always struggled with feelings of anxiety and depression as I feel many do. And when reading this, all I could think was "it can't be that simple." But maybe it is. Maybe feeling these things is just part of life's beautiful journey, and as the song says, these jokes soon will pass. He offers a needed perspective to the whole issue, maybe a lot of us just need to recognize it's okay to feel anxious or depressed, just as it is to feel happy. It's beautiful in a tragic sort of way, but that's life, beautiful none the less.

With tears of joy, Mon the Fratellis!

Thanks for this post! I was still wondering what this song is about - actually I still do. But this helped.

Now this is a wholesome post.

I can't even begin to explain how happy I am to see a new album from these guys, absolutely love it! totally different from everything they've done before but the same phenomenal quality. Star Crossed Losers, I've Been Blind, Sugartown, and Laughing Gas are some of my favorite songs of theirs already, and ive been listening for quite a while now. Still waiting optimistically for Bright Night Flowers!

We really love this track. Its definitely a favorite on the new album. The lyrics are wonderfully written and we embrace them wholeheartedly. We love The Fratellis! 💗💗

Let me in or let me go I swear
Out there
Nobody else will ever know what you’re thinking
All your angels will not save your skin
You’ll spin
Please don’t forget that you’re the end and the beginning

In your own sweet time you’ll see
Your neuroses unwind
There'll be no rain on your parade
There'll be no devils on your mind
So darling break out the laughing gas
You and I know this joke soon will pass
Give me your last request
And I’ll see what I can do
To paint your grey skies blue before I pass
That’s all I ask
Break out the laughing gas

Well let me go or let me in, it’s time
A sign
Please don’t pretend you just can’t feel it
All your ships are sailing, all your bridges burned
Show me your heart so I can steal it

In your own sweet time you’ll find
That all your words will rhyme
There’ll be no blood upon your tracks
There’ll be no thread left to unwind
So darling break out the laughing gas
You and I know this joke soon will pass
Give me your last request
And I’ll see what I can do
To paint your grey skies blue
Before I pass
That’s all I ask
Break out the laughing gas
Take all your ideals and well told tales
I know a prayer that never fails
Don’t hold your breath, you dreamed this dream well
Just click your heels and you’ll soon break this unholy spell
This hell
Is only a story you tell

So break out the laughing gas
Let go, let this soap opera be your last
Set all these fools on fire
Why should you not have all that you desire
Break out the laughing gas
You and I know this joke soon will pass
Give me your last request
And I’ll see what I can do
To paint your grey skies blue
Before I pass
That’s all I ask
Break out the laughing gas