ii

'ii' by Chvrches is an alternative track from the album 'Love Is Dead' (2018). Over spoken-word framing, the lyrics position truth as something split between dark and light, then turn to a colder view of love, where feeling does not reach the eyes. There is an insistence on telling a story, delivered as a kind of address to vast, high places, culminating in calls to skyscrapers and the sky. The overall effect is austere and rhetorical, with the line “Tell it to the skyscrapers” standing out as the clearest directive.