Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musicia… Read Full Bio ↴Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director and visual artist. Her music incorporates elements of varied styles and genres including dream pop, synth-pop, art pop, electronic, experimental pop, R&B and hip hop.

Throughout her career, she has released five studio albums, two extended plays, eleven singles, and four promotional singles.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Grimes began releasing music independently late in the first decade of the 2000s, releasing two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa in 2010 on Arbutus Records. She subsequently signed with 4AD and rose to fame with the release of her third studio album Visions in 2012. It produced the singles "Genesis" and "Oblivion", and received the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year. Her fourth studio album Art Angels (2015) received critical praise, and was named the best album of the year by several publications. Her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, was released in 2020. Her next album, Book 1, is supposed to be released in early 2023.

Nightmusic
Grimes Lyrics

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She'd be, she'd be on the sun
Love could always may come and go
Do you wanna say oh
Guys do not wanna say
Anything in front of me
Love do you wanna say oh

Guys do not wanna say

Everything I wanna say
I don't wanna say, I don't wanna say
Jimmy Jimmy understand
Love could always may come and go
To the night, oh

I've been hard to run up in the snow
You've been liking anywhere to go

Tonight's the night I awaited 'til the end
Tonight's the night and I will see its end
So it's underwater and you caught it
You would never let it go, oh, oh, oh

Tonight's the night I awaited 'til the end
Tonight's the night and I will see its end
So it's underwater and you caught it
You would never let it go, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh

She'd be, she'd be on the sun
Love could always may come and go
Do you wanna say oh
Guys do not wanna say
Anything in front of me
Go, don't wanna stay

I sleep in the day and dance in the night
I sleep in the day and dance in the night
I sleep in the day and dance in the night
I sleep in the day and dance in the night
I sleep in the day and dance in the night
I sleep in the day and dance in the night

I sleep in the day and dance in the night
I sleep in the day and dance in the night

Overall Meaning

Grimes's song Nightmusic incites a dreamlike state with its repetitive and haunting lyrics. The first lines, "She'd be, she'd be on the sun, love could always may come and go," invokes the image of a faraway lover dancing on the sun. The repeated question of "Do you wanna say oh" suggests a desire to communicate something important, but the subject perhaps lacks the courage to say it outright. This is reinforced when she sings, "Guys do not wanna say anything in front of me, love do you wanna say oh?" The repetition of "I don't wanna say, I don't wanna say" implies that this subject is afraid of speaking their truth.

In the second verse, she sings "Tonight's the night I awaited 'til the end, tonight's the night and I will see its end" which suggests a moment of reckoning, as if she has been waiting for this moment for a long time but is finally ready to face it. The lines "So it's underwater and you caught it, you would never let it go" indicates something precious has been found and experienced underwater, perhaps a metaphor for something rare and hard to come by. The final repetitions of "I sleep in the day and dance in the night" suggest a reoccurring pattern, a cycle of sleeping during the day and coming alive at night, linked to the idea of being in tune with the rhythms of the universe and finding inner peace through dancing.

Line by Line Meaning

She'd be, she'd be on the sun
She is a dreamer who always chases the impossible

Love could always may come and go
Love is unpredictable

Do you wanna say oh
Do you want to confess your love?

Guys do not wanna say
Men are afraid to express their emotions

Anything in front of me
They are intimidated by the singer

Love do you wanna say oh
Do you want to confess your love?

Guys do not wanna say
Men are afraid to express their emotions

Everything I wanna say
I want to express my love clearly

I don't wanna say, I don't wanna say
I am afraid to express my emotions

Jimmy Jimmy understand
Perhaps someone named Jimmy understands

Love could always may come and go
Love is unpredictable