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Celia InsideThe Cardigans

Released: February 18, 1994

Songwriter: Magnus Sveningsson Peter Svensson

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
You don't want the sun to shine in
So you turn the curtains down
Your eyes still don't show me a thing
And you don't feel it's sunny outside

You don't want the joy for a while
But you'll stay up late at night
It hurts you that she's still alive
So you'll raise flowerbeds inside

[Chorus]
But she, she will not get bothered at all
She's just watching the water at fall
So you should give them just what they need
Water and poetry
Cause she will not bother at all
She's just watching the water at fall
So you should give them just what they need
Cause she will not bother at all
But you won't say you're not adored by her beauty
Celia inside

[Verse 2]
You don't want to feel her at all
But who's that fellowman of hers?
With who, your dear Celia moved
And they'll sleep happily inside

[Chorus]
But she, she will not get bothered at all
She's just watching the water at fall
So you should give them just what they need
Water and poetry
Cause she will not bother at all
She's just watching the water at fall
So you should give them just what they need
Cause she will not bother at all
But you won't say you're not adored by her beauty
Celia inside

[Bridge]
And you'll raise flowerbeds inside

[Chorus]
But she, she will not get bothered at all
She's just watching the water at fall
So you should give them just what they need
Water and poetry
Cause she will not bother at all
She's just watching the water at fall
So you should give them just what they need
Cause she will not bother at all
But you won't say you're not adored by her beauty
Celia inside

[Outro]
And her purity
And her lovely
Celia inside
Celia inside

The Cardigans

One of the most pleasing pop groups of the ‘90s, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren’t backed by solid musicianship and clever arrangements. The band’s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine – the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the major argument in favor – and critics inserted the group into the space age pop revivalist camp. the Cardigans later proved that they were more difficult to pigeonhole, however.

Even the band’s origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October 1992 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassist Magnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson – an art-school friend who had never sung professionally – plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg.

All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in 1993 and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year. He liked what he heard and invited the group to record at his Malmö studio. Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May 1994. The single “Rise & Shine” became a hit on Swedish radio soon after the release of the LP, and a readers poll in Sweden’s Slitz magazine voted Emmerdale the best album of 1994.

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