Girls Don’t Cry (Girls on Coke is a band blending dreamy, chaotic, and atmospheric elements. Their music explores themes of inner and outer conflict through raw honesty and dynamic compositions. Keywords: post-punk, shoegaze, d)
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Annotation
Experimental pop/rock with dreamy and chaotic elements. An album that explores both internal and external conflicts through raw honesty and powerful compositions.
**Green Moon**
The song revolves around the hope for a greener future—a world returning to what it once was. The red shadows symbolize the blood spilled around us, while the green moon floats distant and unattainable. It affects us and our ecosystem, yet we cannot touch it. The moon is green with envy—jealous that it cannot be a part of us, yet relieved that it is not being destroyed by us.
**Silence the Hills**
A subtle narrative about the climate crisis. The mountains are listening—nature registers everything we do. We are asked to be silent because even the smallest actions have consequences. People claim to act sustainably, but is that true? Or are we speaking a language that Earth neither hears nor understands? The chorus reflects loneliness—an extended metaphor for human selfishness. We are born alone, we die alone, and we live as if we are alone on this planet.
**Train**
A song about being on the wrong train—trapped in a life that has taken a direction you can no longer control. You once had a choice, but now it's out of your hands. It’s about longing for the past, missing the carefree days of childhood. Now, you just want to go home. Home from a noisy, smoke-filled bar. Home to the silence. You stumble up the stairs, but the bruises on your body aren’t from the fall—they are from the choices you’ve made. And you no longer know if anyone is still there to catch you. The song speculates on the big "what if?"
**Be Okay**
A danceable song about inner chaos. About loving and despising at the same time. The narrator is on the edge—torn between wanting to stay and wanting to disappear, between closeness and isolation. The melody is light, but the theme is heavy—just like emotions. Is the person cynical and cold, or just confused and grieving? The song is not meant to give answers but to evoke the recognition of a feeling you may not be able to explain—yet you know exists.
**Don’t Come Back**
The song was born in a basement where lead singer Martin could scream without fear of complaints. The basement was both a storage room and a bunker—an isolated world where raw, unfiltered emotions ran free. The lyrics are intuitive, the voice cracks with desperation, and the instruments each play their own melody, almost as if they are falling apart. But that’s the point. The chaos is real—this is pure artistic expression.
**Don’t You Cry**
This was the first deeply emotional song Girls on Coke created. It struck something in us, even though the lyrics didn’t initially feel profound or deliberate. Over time, the cryptically constructed lines have found their own meaning in the world—almost as a premonition of how we would come to feel. We are surrounded by sins, singing songs that were never meant to be sung, and things that should never have happened have happened. The neo-imperialist world harms us all. We each struggle to climb our own stairs, seeking a better place. We look into the universe and hope for a universal law of justice and unity—but perhaps that is just an illusion, belonging only to dreams.
**Red Sky**
The song originates from the idea that on January 25, 2025, a large portion of the planets in our solar system will align. This sparked associations with Greek mythology, where the Titans—the ancient gods of chaos—are freed from their imprisonment beneath the ocean by Neptune. This is contrasted with the philosophical thought: If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If the boat on the ocean, a symbol of humanity, sinks—will the Titans still exist? Or are we, in reality, the root of all chaos? Musically, this is reflected in the song’s structure—the verses are simple and stringent, while the interludes are wild, chaotic, and devoid of human vocals.
**Mind Quzaim**
The title references the repeated line, "I don’t mind 'cause I’m free," which originally started as an inside joke. The song connects with the other tracks on the album and can only be fully understood when seen as part of the whole. It serves as a finale, closing an era in the artists' lives. The first songs on the album were created in 2022, and since then, the band has experienced a lot—including viral attention on Instagram for their humorous lifestyle and aesthetic, bohemian-style videos that focused on simplicity.
Even though this period is now coming to an end, it will always hold a special significance. New opportunities have arisen, new connections have been made—and this song ties it all together. The title, therefore, is more than just a bad joke; it is a symbol of the fun and crazy journey the artists have been on. A journey that is now nearing its end but will live on in the music.
Tracklist
| 1Digital Media | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Rating | Length |
| 1 | Green moon | 2:56 | |
| 2 | Silence the Hills | 3:42 | |
| 3 | Train | 4:11 | |
| 4 | Be Okay | 3:40 | |
| 5 | Don’t Come Back | 3:15 | |
| 6 | Don’t You Cry | 3:34 | |
| 7 | Red Sky | 3:06 | |
| 8 | Mind Quzaim | 4:13 | |
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Release
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