Ugh!

## Music video

**"Ugh!"** (stylised as **"UGH!"**) is a song by the English rock band The 1975, released as the second single from their second album, *I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it*.

## Background

Jamming with pop-rock and heavily electronic flutters, "UGH!" darkly hues as the third track on *I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it*, depicting Matthew Healy’s battle with cocaine highs and life lows, and failed attempts to quit.

Matty admitted to formerly being an addict in a 2013 The Guardian interview. He describes the song fundamentally as "something that goes back to the early foundation of how we write music as The 1975." Healy also told KROQ that the song expresses disappointment.

The song premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 10 December 2015, with the official lyrics posted simultaneously.

## Lyrics

Hey, boy, stop pacing 'round the room

Using other people's faces as a mirror for you

I know your lungs need filling

Since your gums have lost their feeling

But don't say that you're giving it up again

"Do you have a card?

My irregular heart beat is starting to correct itself"

It's just a simple diarrhetic that prevents the empathetic

From being just and giving it up

And you're the only thing that's going on in my mind

Taking over my life a second time

I don't have the capacity for fucking

You're meant to be helping me

When I said I liked it better without my money, I lied

It took a little while to recognize that I, I'm not giving it up again

This conversation's not about reciprocation no more

But I'm gon' wait until you finish so I can talk some more

About me and my things, my car, my living

And how I'm giving it up, giving it up again

And you're the only thing that's going on in my mind

Taking over my life a second time

I don't have the capacity for fucking

You're meant to be helping me

When I said I liked it better without my money, I lied

It took a little while to recognize that I, I'm not giving it up again

Oh, the kick won't last for long, but the song only lasts 3 minutes

I think I've lost my phone, so won't you call it up for me?

Oh, the kick won't last for long, but the song only lasts 3 minutes

And I know it's wrong, but give me one

And you're the only thing that's going on in my mind

Taking over my life a second time

I don't have the capacity for fucking

You're meant to be helping me

When I said I liked it better without my money, I lied

It took a little while to recognize that I, I'm not giving it up again

I'm not giving it up, I'm not giving it up

I'm not giving it up, I'm not giving it up

I'm not giving it up, giving it up

I'm not giving it up, giving it up!

## Personnel

* **Publisher:** Good Soldier Records
* **Programmer:** George Daniel, Mike Crossey, Jonathan Gilmore
* **Mixing Engineer:** Mike Crossey
* **Mastering Engineer:** Chris Gehringer
* **Engineer:** Jonathan Gilmore
* **Composer:** George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross MacDonald, and Adam Hann
* **Keyboard:** Adam Hann, Matthew Healy
* **Background Vocals:** Matthew Healy
* **Percussion:** George Daniel
* **Synthesizer programming:** George Daniel
* **Label:** Dirty Hit, Interscope Records
* **Premiere:** Beats 1, Zane Lowe
* **Additional vocals:** George Daniel
* **Guitar:** Matthew Healy, Adam Hann
* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy
* **Synthesizer:** George Daniel
* **Drums:** George Daniel