COOL

Track 8 on Blue Neighbourhood (Suburbia Edition)

Producer

“Cool” is the 8th track from Troye Sivan’s debut album Blue Neighbourhood, which released on December 4th, 2015. Sivan played the song live for the first time during the… Read More

Dec. 4, 20151 viewer119.8K views

COOL Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sweet life living
Pools and swimming
Drinks in bars and
Boys in cars and
Rooftop sinning
Skinny dipping
Shooting stars with you
Fat cigars and

[Pre-Chorus]
That weekend up in the islands
They stop and stare
Flashes filling the silence
Of a Hollywood love affair
Waking up in the islands
'Cause I saw you there
Lost and tryna be

[Chorus]
I was just tryna be cool
I was just tryna be like you
I'm a spark and you're a boom
What am I supposed to do?

[Verse 2]
Mansion debut
Love it, do you?
Absent father
Pays his daughter
And her mama withdrew
From the life they once knew
She had a heart
But she sold it off for

See Troye Sivan Live

Get tickets as low as $247

[Pre-Chorus]
That weekend up in the islands
They stop and stare
Flashes filling the silence
Of a Hollywood love affair
Waking up in the islands
'Cause I saw you there
Lost and tryna be

[Chorus]
I was just tryna be cool
I was just tryna be like you
I'm a spark and you're a boom
What am I supposed to do?

[Post-Chorus]
When I've got that cigarette smoke
And Saint Laurent coat, but nothing is feeling right
I drink but I choke, I love but I don't, yeah
I was just tryna be cool
I was just tryna be like you

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
I was just tryna be cool
I was just tryna be like you
I'm a spark and you're a boom
What am I supposed to do?

[Post-Chorus]
When I've got that cigarette smoke
And Saint Laurent coat, but nothing is feeling right
I drink but I choke, I love but I don't, yeah
I was just tryna be cool
I was just tryna be like you

Embed

About

Genius Annotation

“Cool” is the 8th track from Troye Sivan’s debut album Blue Neighbourhood, which released on December 4th, 2015.

Sivan played the song live for the first time during the start of his very first tour at the Nuemos in Seattle on 15 October 2015.

In a Track by Track review with EMI, Troye said of the song:

Cool was a fun song to write. Alex and I were in the studio in LA talking about how LA made us want to smoke and drink and be out all the time. The lyrics are really tongue in cheek. I just hope no one takes it too seriously, because there’s an underlying emptiness and tragedy behind all these fancy things I’m talking about.