Nothing cuts quite as deeply as an emotional wound felt from within, and it’s something The Cult embodies in their latest single, “A Cut Inside.” With tribal undertones, the new single takes an introspective look at the slings of slights and serves as the second release from the band’s upcoming eleventh studio album, Under the midnight sun.
The song is accompanied by a psychedelic, artistic video featuring silhouettes of the band members performing with fiery red and dull blue hues. Listen to the song, discover the lyrics and watch the dazzling video directed by Juan Azulay for “A Cut Inside” below and if you like what you hear, the track is available on this location.
The Cult, lyrics from “A Cut Inside” (by AZLyrics.com)
I do not want to be
Caught in your scene
I have so little leftI gave you everything, I crawled
I watched you dance ‘cross the floor
I need to believe in something
They don’t know my name
take the blame
They will hold you back
Bind you and choke youCaught in the lie
Tears in my eyes
Thorns of this life
Cut inside
No pagans in heaven
No sweet surrender
Strangers forever
The ghost of our livesWe will never be
Taken in your belief
Get off your kneesYou took it all, I crawled
I watched you dance ‘cross the floor
I need to believe in something
They don’t know your name
take the blameCaught in the lie
With tears in my eyes
The bones of this life
Cut inside
No pagans in heaven
No sweet surrender
Strangers forever
The ghosts of our livesNo pagans in heaven
No sweet surrender
Strangers forever
The ghost of our lives
The Cult, “A Cup Within”
“A Cut Inside” follows the recently released debut single “give me pity“, giving the band’s latest album a mighty punch.
For the Under the midnight sun album, singer Ian Astbury found himself inspired by a seemingly endless day while visiting Finland. While strolling the grounds of the Provinssirock festival, Astbury took note of the “midnight sun” occurring. “It’s three o’clock in the morning, the sun is rising, and there are all these beautiful people in this peaceful moment”, recalls the singer. People are lying on the grass, kissing, drinking, smoking. There were rows of flowers in front of the stage from performances earlier in the evening. It was an incredible moment.
This special moment and the environment of that day brought Astbury back to mind as he revisited footage amid the pandemic lockdown. “When the world stopped, I had that moment to write in real time, to calculate,” says Astbury. “I was compelled by this vision, this anomaly, this memory, of being under the midnight sun. To M [Dalgety] helped us bring a new musical form and frequency to our process.
“At the heart of it all, music contains the vibrational frequency of how we communicated before we could even speak,” he says. “Bird songs, animal calls, string theory, quantum physics, psychedelics. The record is ultimately about finding and uniting the beauty in these eerily natural moments.
The new album, Under the midnight sun, was produced by Tom Dalgety and is currently on track for an October 7th release via Black Hill Records. Pre-orders are available here and you can check out the artwork and track listing below.
The cult, Under the midnight sun Artwork + track list
worship under the midnight sun album cover, worship, under the midnight sun
Mirror
A cut inside
Vendetta X
give me pity
outer sky
Knife through butterfly heart
Impermanence
Under the midnight sun
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