Placebo - Forever Chemicals

Taken from Placebo's new album 'Never Let Me Go'.

Released via SO Recordings.

Written by: Brian Molko & Stefan Olsdal
Produced by: Placebo & Adam Noble

Video by: Comes With Fries

-- LYRICS --

The memory drugs 
Make memory snow
I think but I forget
My imagination doesn’t know where to go 
So it goes to sleep instead
The memory tapes
Of memory fucking
Fill me with regret 
Now my memory shapes 
Forgot their own names 
And I can't get out of bed 
(Shit)
 
My memory body 
My memory skin
I want to kiss your pretty face 
The memory drugs 
Are a discipline
So I can know and keep my place
 
It’s all good
When nothing matters 
It's all good 
When no one cares 
It's all good
When I feel nothing 
It's all good 
When I'm not there
 
And with friends like you 
Who needs enemies?
And with friends like you 
Who needs enemies?
With friends like you 
Who needs enemies? 
Friends like you 
 
It's all good  
When nothing matters 
It's all good  
When no one cares 

It's all good  
When I feel nothing 
It's all good  
When I'm not there 
It's all good  
When nothing matters 
It's all good  
When no one cares
It's all good  
When I feel nothing 
It's all good  
When I'm not there 
It's all good  
When nothing matters 
It's all good  
When no one cares 
It's all good  
When I feel nothing 
It's all good  
When I'm not there

[beepst]

This song is an absolute killer. What a good damn opener. Those metallic sounds…

[honeyandthebee]

Oh Placebo, right when the world is a bloody mess, you give us music that puts a smile on our faces and a ray of hope. Thank You!

[morgainelautreamont]

When you hit certain age, and you know you have to struggle all your life with depression, angst, death, that you have never feel like others or maybe you just can't figured out why to feel joy is so hard, and chemicals help but also kill you and numb your soul but make you functional.... You can get high with this sonic meaningful song. Placebo never disappoints my dispair. This is exactly how I feel having to deal with meds and depression. Or with bipolar diagnosed lovers and friends. Just drain and then feeling all the emotions but thanks to a pill then better and then nothing. And no one really cares. Fucking deep amazing song. Love placebo wit, rawness, truth, passion.

[PhillioDoede]

Its super rare for a band to be able to maintain their sound while at the same time push themselves forward sonically and creatively but Placebo have proved it with this album in my opinion. Musically as good as anything they've done and artistically as good as anything Ive heard in years. Thanks for another piece of art Brian and Stef!

[nicoletagroedahl]

the best of Placebo is to see them live, travel for music, as we do

[kingprince]

“And with friends like you, who needs enemies ?”

[witchylau]

And it's all good when nothing matters
It's all good when no one cares
It's all good when I feel nothing
It's all good when I'm not there ❤️

[beatenfavorite]

BRIAN MOLKO:
“Well, Forever Chemicals was probably the first track on the album that we started working on, and that’s probably why it’s the first. In around 2016, I was sat in my studio with Stef, on the iPad, I had this drum machine, and I quickly programmed the beat, just like that. Then I realised that you could take that beat with this drum machine and put it on to any instrument from an orchestra. So I put the drum beat on a harp and I distorted it and put some delay on it. And then you’ve got that loop that from Forever Chemicals that opens the album, and it’s kind of cool because it was sort of slightly reminiscent of Infra-Red, but more brutal kind of a statement of intent sonically, for the record, to kind of start with that and Forever Chemicals is one of the songs that I rewrote over and over and over again lyrically. It started off as a song about police brutality and I tried to put myself in the heart and soul of somebody who had lost someone, uh, who’d been murdered by the police, then as I spoke to more people I was I was kind of advised not really to go there and I wondered if I was going to be inviting a great deal of aggro into my life. And I’m kind of glad they did because it forced me to go into a sort of a more ambiguous territory with Forever Chemicals. What it’s actually about, I think, is that it is up to the listener.”
♥

[suellenrubira]

THIS SONG. This album. Thank you, guys. It's a life savior.

[DeclanEuropaQuantoi]

This is one of the strongest album openers I've ever heard !

[fiender]

I am so grateful that my absolute favourite band is awake to what is going on in this world. Speaking on censorship, pharma companies, compliance and much more. God bless.

[bornflippy]

And it's all good
When nothing matters
It's all good
When no one cares
It's all good
When I feel nothing
It's all good
When I'm not there

[missgoomie]

Oh, this is so good. I just love the metallic flavor of this song. I could listen over and over. So addictive.

[premeditatio]

Forever Chemicals Lyrics – Placebo

The memory drugs
Make memory snow
I think but I forget
My imagination doesn’t know where to go
So it goes to sleep instead
The memory tapes
Of memory fucking
Fill me with regret
Now my memory shapes
Forgot their own names
And I can’t get out of bed
(Shit)

My memory body
My memory skin
I want to kiss your pretty face
The memory drugs
Are a discipline
So I can know and keep my place

And it’s all good
When nothing matters
It’s all good
When no one cares
It’s all good
When I feel nothing
It’s all good
When I’m not there

And with friends like you
Who needs enemies?
And with friends like you
Who needs enemies?
With friends like you
Who needs enemies?
Friends like you

And it’s all good
When nothing matters
It’s all good
When no one cares
It’s all good
When I feel nothing
It’s all good
When I’m not there
It’s all good
When nothing matters
It’s all good
When no one cares
It’s all good
When I feel nothing
It’s all good
When I’m not there
It’s all good
When nothing matters
It’s all good
When no one cares
It’s all good
When I feel nothing
It’s all good
When I’m not there

[kurtwild]

Honest opinion, Never let me go is probably the best album I've been listening to this year..Placebo still rocks, period.
Saw them live yesterday after 14 years, amazing concert❤

[mdicated]

I'm so grateful that they still make music that's relatable for me. They're the reason I started playing guitar.

[johnkarag]

The more you hear the more you want to listen...!!!! This song is a unique and amazing music experience....sounds like it's from the

[samikokkonen]

Placebo's latest albums - Loud like love and Never let me go - are masterpieces... wonderful songs and wonderful band...

[NitwitGuitarist]

Saw this live on the 21st before My Chemical Romance. Instantly fell in love with the band despite having never heard of them before, I'm addicted to them now!! This song was such a great opener, and their songs sound amazing live, I'd recommend going to see them if you can!!

[Mantrametal]

They are a great band and the voice is magical, their unique sound is the best, I've been following them for a long time and they never cease to amaze me.