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ILLENIUM

Beautiful Creatures

Release date: 21st September 2017

From Awake
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About This Track

'Beautiful Creatures' finds Illenium and MAX navigating the gap between aspiration and collapse. The track opens on weightlessness and disorientation, voices reaching through darkness on instinct alone, before the chorus pivots to a harder question: if love is a lie, why do we need it? The production mirrors this tension, building from sparse, searching verses into a chorus that swells with affirmation even as the lyrics describe falling to pieces. The song trades in paradox. It acknowledges the monsters we carry and the truths we bury, yet insists on an inner resilience. When your highs are low, the second verse counsels, keep the faith; a life is never wasted. That strain between doubt and conviction, between the weight we carry and the belief that we can bear it, gives the track its emotional weight. The refrain "we're beautiful creatures" lands not as easy reassurance but as hard-won recognition.

"Beautiful Creatures" is a track by ILLENIUM, from the album Awake, released 21st September 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

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ILLENIUM

ILLENIUM

Lyrics

Beautiful Creatures

[Verse 1]

Can't see the stars, but we're reaching

Trying to get through the dark on a feeling

Lost our gravity, now we’re weightless

But I know in my heart we can take this

[Pre-Chorus]

We got monsters in our closets

Had a reason but we lost it

No direction, we've been calling through the night

Through the night

[Chorus]

If love is a lie, then why do we need it?

We swear we're alive, but we're falling to pieces

We fight like lions

We howl at the moon

We should be flying

Instead we bury the truth

But I know inside we're beautiful creatures (beautiful)

[Post-Chorus]

We're beautiful creatures

[Verse 2]

When your highs are low, keep the faith yeah

Cause you know that a life's never wasted

Standing tall, shaking off the dust

Now we know, now we know what we're made of

[Pre-Chorus]

We got monsters in our closets

Had a reason but we lost it

No direction, we've been calling through the night

Through the night

[Chorus]

If love is a lie, then why do we need it?

We swear we're alive, but we're falling to pieces

We fight like lions

We howl at the moon

We should be flying

Instead we bury the truth

But I know inside we're beautiful creatures

[Post-Chorus]

We're beautiful creatures (beautiful)

We're beautiful creatures

We're beautiful creatures

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2017
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    Writer
    Charlie Snyder, David Pramik, ILLENIUM, Jacob Hawkes, Robert Gillies
    Producer
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