Clarence Clarity - The Love Choke

〈verse 1〉
Was i born with complications?
An insufferable heart
After self imposed sedation
I spit petrol on a spark

〈pre-chorus〉
And if i could realise it
And if i could make it true
But i can’t photo-synthesise it
I’m trapped in bloom

〈chorus〉
Ghosts howl on
Help me to remember
We’re always
These chains chime on
But help me to remember
Always. always

〈verse 2〉
And i’m stuck with sticky pliers
I couldn’t peel back if i tried
And while you’re plucking off your eyelids
I suck whatever i can find
〈pre-chorus #2〉
But you couldn’t realise it
And you couldn’t make it true
But i can photoshop your eyes out
Cropped and glued

〈chorus〉
Ghosts howl on
Help me to remember
We’re always
These chains chime on
But help me to remember
Always

〈bridge〉
Never gonna work it out
It’s killing me, just what is love?
When i think i know, i know i don’t
If i was gonna know i’d know by now
Never gonna work it out
It’s killing me, just what is love?
When i think i know, i know i don’t
If i was gonna know i’d know by n-

〈intermission〉
Do you see through me when i lie?
Will you unveil me when i die?
〈bridge〉
Never gonna work it out
It’s killing me, just what is love?
When i think i know, i know i don’t
If i was gonna know i’d know by now
Never gonna work it out
It’s killing me, just what is love?
When i think i know, i know i don’t
If i was gonna know i’d know by now
(look at me) - just what is love?
(if you’ll ever know, you’d know by now
Even if you knew, you’d choke somehow)
(shit) tell me: what is love?
(we’re chasing rabbits, chasing rabbits…)

〈outro〉
Help me to remember
Help me to remember
Help me to remember
As my mind departs
Help me to remember
Help me to remember
Help me to remember
As my mind departs...

Clarence Clarity is a producer, singer, and songwriter based in London. He has been active under this name since 2012. His musical style ranges across alternative R&B, glitch pop, and noise, and is described by The Guardian’s Ian McQuaid as “a glitching, unsettling combination of sleaze, funk, static and collapse”.

He released his debut EP SAVE †HYSELF in 2013, and his second EP Who Am Eye a year later. In 2015, he released his debut album No Now, which received modest press attention and favorable reviews. In 2016, he announced an upcoming second album, called Leave Earth, and in 2017, produced Rina Sawayama’s EP RINA.

In October 2018, he finally released his second album, now under the name THINK: PEACE, alongside a single not on the album, 1985. At the same time Clarence announced on his twitter that Leave Earth had become a playlist consisting of singles he had made since 2016. He then released a series of singles, in pairs, over the course of 2018, finishing off the playlist by releasing Sob Story and Leave Earth on December 31st of that year.

Clarence plans on releasing a shorter form album called Midievil Europe some time in 2019.

He has stated multiple times that he was unaware of the meme when he chose the name ‘Clarence Clarity’, but thought it was apt in retrospect.