This is the lead single from the veteran alt-rock band’s upcoming album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, out May 30, 2025. Concerning the motivation behind the lyrics, lead vocalist Shirley Manson stated the following: “I love the title. The band sent it me and I was like, “This is great. I’m keeping that.” But the lyrics are an action against that title. Because if we allow our fatalism or our negativity to really take over, we will crumble. It’s about a city, in my case, Los Angeles, but it could be anywhere where bad stuff is happening. After the George Floyd murder, which is one of few things in my life that I wish I’d never seen: I was changed entirely by seeing the footage of that cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. In Los Angeles, there were huge protests and a lot of upheaval after that. Above our house in Hollywood, there were helicopters all day long, for days on end. It was really precarious, chaotic and terrifying.”
The song is also accompanied by a powerful black & white video, which adds even more emotional weight to the song’s timely message.
