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Cuco

Melting

Release date: 2nd August 2016

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About This Track

Cuco's 'Melting' is a love song built on religious metaphor and physical desire. The narrator treats his subject as a place of worship, a verdict, a spell; her presence unmakes him, his blood rushing, his insides inverted. The language moves between the devotional and the sensual without strain, each image arriving with the ease of someone who has found the thing that makes sense of everything else. The chorus reduces all that intensity to a single image: melting like ice cream when she smiles. It is simple enough to lodge in the head, and the song's real work happens in the verses, where Cuco layers specificity onto abstraction. He watches stand-up comedy to learn how to make her laugh. He notices her soft lips and pearly whites, imagines touching them at night, sees her smile as candlelight that settles him into certainty. The song moves between grand gesture and small observation, between what he wants her to be and what he notices that she is.

"Melting" is a track by Cuco, released 2nd August 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Cuco

Cuco

Lyrics

Melting

[Verse 1]

You are my church, you are my place of worship

I heard you're the plug, can I be the circuit?

When I got court, I hope that you're the verdict

When you're around my insides turn inverted

My blood starts to rush when I see you, darlin'

I know you're nearby and I know your purpose

Take one look at you, you're Heaven's incarnate

What is this spell, baby? Please show some mercy

[Chorus]

Melting like an ice cream

When you smile

Melting, you're a daydream

Stay a while

[Verse 2]

I pray that I can learn to be funny

I'm watchin' every stand-up comedy

Just hopin' that you will rub off on me

So you'll smile at everything I say

You got some soft lips and some pearly whites (Pearly whites)

I wanna touch them at the dead of night (Dead of night)

Your smile ignites just like a candlelight (Candlelight)

Then somehow I know everything's alright

[Chorus]

Melting like an ice cream

When you smile

Melting, you're a daydream

Stay a while

[Instrumental Outro]

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Melting

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