After Last Night

## **After Last Night***The Loveliest Time*

**After Last Night** is the third track on Carly Rae Jepsen's sixth studio album The Loveliest Time (2023). It was released on July 28th 2023, through 604, School Boy, and Interscope Records.

## **Lyrics**

**Verse 1**

Gravity is not enough to keep me on your street

Walking 20 feet above the ground

I need you to hold my hand

Every kiss we start somehow feels incomplete

Secrets in the corner of your mouth

Things I wanna understand

**Pre-Chorus**

Then you said, "Hey,

Before we make a big mistake,

Is there some place where we can go right now?

I don't think that it can wait"

**Chorus**

After this night

Things look different in the pale moonlight

In the moment, I was hypnotised

You can go ahead and open your eyes

Yeah, I see you

And I think it's gonna change my life

Not afraid of getting close this time

You can go ahead and open your eyes

**Verse 2**

Consequence of dancing with these insecurities

Tell me what you want and I'll reply

I can tell the truth, don't lie

**Pre-Chorus**

Then you said, "Hey,

Before we make a big mistake

Is there some place where we can go right now?

There's something I need to say"

**Chorus**

After last night

Things look different in the pale moonlight

In the moment, I was hypnotised

You can go ahead and open your eyes

Yeah, I see you

And I think it's gonna change my life

Not afraid of getting close this time

You can go ahead and open your eyes

**Post-Chorus**

*(Yeah, yeah)*

*(Yeah, yeah)*

*(Yeah, yeah)*

There I see you

*(Yeah, yeah)*

*(Yeah, yeah)*

*(Yeah, yeah)*

Yeah, I see you

**Bridge**

After we spent the night

The moon was shining extra bright

We kinda opened up inside

After we spent the night

We crossed into the other side

And manifested something right

**Chorus**

After last night

Things look different in the pale moonlight

In the moment, I was hypnotised

You can go ahead and open your eyes

Yeah, I see you

And I think it's gonna change my life

Not afraid of getting close this time

You can go ahead and open your eyes

**Outro**

It's always been you

Really, always, and it's no surprise

I was nervous, I was hypnotised

You can go ahead and open your eyes

## **Song credits**

#### **Performance**

* **Vocals:** Carly Rae Jepsen
* **Backing vocals:** Angel Deradoorian

#### **Writing and production**

* **Written by:** Carly Rae Jepsen • Rostam • Noonie Bao
* **Produced by:** Rostam

#### **Instrumentation**

* **Drums:** Rostam
* **Percussion:** Rostam
* **Piano:** Joey Messina-Doerning
* **Strings:** Rostam
* **Synthesizer:** Rostam

#### **Technical credits**

* **Engineering:** Joey Messina-Doerning • Rostam
* **Mastering:** Ruairi O'Flaherty
* **Mixing:** Manny Marroquin
* **Assistant mixer:** Anthony Vilchis • Trey Station • Zach Pereyra
* **Drum programming:** Rostam

## **Background**

After Last Night is a song from Jepsen's sixth studio album The Loveliest Time. The song's title was first revealed alongside the announcement of the album's track listing on July 18th 2023; it was previously teased in a video on Carly's social media on July 13th.

## **Writing and development**

After Last Night was written sometime between 2020 and 2023 during the development of The Loneliest Time and The Loveliest Time, by Jepsen alongside Rostam and Noonie Bao. Carly described that the song "sounds like a musical in space," stating, "Rostam and me had conversations where he was like, “I don’t think there’s any other artist who could put out this one. We should do it. Let’s enjoy the fact that it is a little bit over the top and that you kind of need to move your body when you listen to it.”

Carly stated that After Last Night was the final song to make the album and was inspired by playing Shooting Star live on tour across early 2023, realising that both songs had an unconventional structure: "Those sort of songs are almost like a video game song where it’s like you’re at this level, and then there’s not another chorus, there’s just like another little level that you go to. I think after so many years of doing the Swedish way of writing pop songs where it’s versus-previous chorus-bridge, it’s so fun. That’s been a place where I’ve really enjoyed sort of knowing the rules and breaking them."

## **References**

1. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "...Crossword puzzle that is. Here are some cutie clues to get you guessing our track list." July 18th 2023 - via Twitter
2. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "The Loveliest Time. July 28th (...)" July 13th 2023 - via Twitter
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Spanos, Brittany "Carly Rae Jepsen Says Her New Project ‘The Loveliest Time’ Is Her Favorite — and Freest — Album Yet" Rolling Stone, July 19th 2023