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Seal snootily refuses to explain his lyrics for 'Kiss From a Rose'

by Jeremy Mersereau

As a general rule, people who live in graying towers alone on the sea aren’t well-versed in social niceties, so you could forgive soulful English singer and Klum-rag Seal for not being particularly chatty when he annotates his own lyrics on Genius.

However, if he’s going to go the trouble of annotating the lyrics to his best-known song on the world’s most popular crowdsourced lyric breakdown website, you’d think he could be a little bit less snooty about it. Read Seal’s haughty comments here.

Discovered by MTV News editor/writer Patrick Hosken, Seal does go to the trouble of writing a lengthy treatise on the backstory of “Kiss From A Rose”, explaining how people only got to hear what became his Batman-soundtracking, triple-Grammy-winning hit through the insistence of producer Trevor Horn.

Then it’s on to the lyrics, and everyone get excited, because we’re finally about to learn what “a light hits the gloom on the gray” really means from the man who wrote those words! Except, no:

God bless you, Selery. I compare your shit talking to a kiss from a rose on the gray. And now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the gray, and so on.