The Sweetest Chill Lyrics
Feeling you your cadence seeps
Whispering in flashback the spectres of your memories
Fall in glistening showers such a tender descent
Intones this haunting lament
The sweetest chill
Icy breath encases my skin
Fingers like a fountain of needles
Shiver along my spine
And rain down so divine
Wanting you this hoary web is weaved
From this strange confusion
Grows a perverse communication
It enthralls me and coils me around
Enchantment ebbs and whirls oh the thrill
The sweetest chill
SIOUXSIE: "It touches on the death of a loved one, being touched by the chill of their presence..." Source: NME 28/09/85.
CARRUTHERS: "This is about a visitation from a lover's spirit who is already dead - someone who comes back from the grave and greets her as a lover. I don't think Sioux wrote it from personal experience, but you never know. Whenever she tries to write a love song it always comes out from a very different standpoint. It's not exactly Bonnie Tyler, though Sioux can do a great Bonnie impersonation. Source: Melody Maker 1986.
I recall John Carruthers saying that this was about a dead lover visiting in the night.
The dichotomy of a sweet chill. Sorta like if something is bittersweet, carrying mixed emotion. This is likely about a man that perhaps part of her loves and longs for.
I recall John Carruthers saying that this was about a dead lover visiting in the night.