Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied

## *Notes on a Conditional Form* chronology

**"Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied"** is the thirteenth track on The 1975's fourth studio album, *Notes on a Conditional Form*.

## Background

*"It’s quite a lo-fi hip-hop track. It came from George jamming on the piano, and I was putting a really low-resolution breakbeat over the top of it. Stuff like that is really fun for us sometimes. If it’s really simple and you’ve got a loop to work with, you can kind of just go into producer mode. And—like any producer normally is—we’re huge J Dilla fans and all that kind of stuff. Lyrically, it’s just more self-reflection. I think it’s about also doing your bit as an artist—if you give people nothing to work with, if you say nothing, then you leave room for people to project anything. I find that a lot of people who are out there doing their thing musically, who aren’t challenging any ideas, are only made interesting through association or projection. I don’t feel like a lot of people stand by stuff."*
Struck by the extrospective feeling that life isn’t what it seems, Healy turns this indictment inwards, described by NME as seemingly “bent on deconstructing the entire artifice of his carefully curated persona.”

## Lyrics

Life feels like a lie, I need something to be true

Is there anybody out there?

Life feels like there's something missing, maybe it's you

Is there anybody out there?

I never fucked in a car, I was lying

I do it on my bed, lying down, not trying

Apathy for me is an issue, you see

I just talk about the things upsetting me

And I get somewhere, I don't like it

Get somewhere, change my mind, eh

Get somewhere but don't find it

I don't find what I'm looking for

Yes, and if they catch you slippin'

Trippin' over your fibbing and elicit

A ribbing over how they think you should be livin'

That's life, kind of, maybe take some time off

You can't live in denial of setting it right

Because if nothing is revealed, everything denied

Learn up yourself before you talk it

They need to see you walk it

You don't fuck with your poor fans

You need the rich ones to expand your floor plans

You can't figure out a heart, you were lying

You're doin' in my head with your non-stop trying

Never gettin' sleep and forgettin' to eat

I pretend that all these things agree with me

And I get somewhere but don't like it

Get somewhere, change my mind, eh

Get somewhere but don't find it (Find it, find it, find it)

I don't find what I'm looking for

Life feels like a lie, I need something to be true

Is there anybody out there?

Life feels like there's something missing, maybe it's you

Is there anybody out there?

Life feels like a lie, I need something to be true

Is there anybody out there?

Life feels like there's something missing, maybe it's you

Is there anybody out there? (Out there)

## Personnel

* **Published by:** Good Soldier Songs
* **Produced by:** George Daniel and Matthew Healy
* **Drums:** George Daniel
* **Keys:** George Daniel and Jamie Squire
* **Synths:** George Daniel
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy
* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Piano:** Jamie Squire
* **Guitar:** Jamie Squire
* **Choir:** London Community Gospel Choir
* **Mixed by:** Mike Crossey
* **Mastered by:** Robin Schmidt
* **Engineered by:** Jonathan Gilmore

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/TwitterMusic/status/1263903095014281223
2. ↑ https://music.apple.com/us/album/notes-on-a-conditional-form/1473599936