The Cardigans - Celia Inside

"You don't want the sun to shine in so you turn the curtains down."

Album: Life (2nd album)
Genre: Twee Pop, Lounge, Sunshine Pop
Album Release: March 1st 1995
Length: 4.42
Producer: Tore Johansson
Vocalist: Nina Persson (age 20)
Label: Stockholm Records

Official Audio


Official Audio (short version from 1994's 'Emmerdale' album)


Live from Gothenberg in 1995

Charts, Streams & Sales
 
Spotify: Over 500 thousand
YouTube Music: Over 200 thousand

Credits

Wrote by band members Peter Svensson and Magnus Sveningsson.

Details

• A shorter version of the song can be found on the groups debut album Emmerdale. 
  
• The song is about a girl called Celia who has two sides. The outside and the inside. On the outside she is beautiful "but you won't say you're not adored by her beauty" but on the inside she is ugly "you don't feel it's sunny outside, you don't want the joy for a while." Celia doesn't believe she can make herself happy and is resigned to her fate "cause she will not bother at all".