The Best Poignant CMAT Lyrics to Use as Photo Captions
If Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson (better known as CMAT) isn't on your radar in 2025, we beg you to do something about it immediately.
It's been a massive year for the artist, who's made waves with viral hits including "Take a Sexy Picture of Me," "Stay for Something," "I Really Don't Care for You" and more, and also stunned audiences at Glastonbury, instantly proving her as a pop superstar. She also released her her third album, EURO-COUNTRY, in August, managing to be at once dark, funny, dramatic, irreverent and effortlessly listenable with a unique brand of country-pop she's also dubbed "Euro-country." Next spring, she'll also be taking the stage at Coachella, and we have no doubts she'll come out of the festival as an even bigger artist. To celebrate everything to come, we've gathered 50 of her most memorable lyrics, from EURO-COUNTRY and more, to use as your next photo caption.
For when solitude teaches you a lot about yourself:
"I learned a lot from my being here, how I had to be on my own, yeah."
-"EURO-COUNTRY"
For when aimlessness makes it even more challenging to find yourself:
"I never understood what this way of living could do to me. All the mooching 'round shops, and the lack of idеntity."
-"EURO-COUNTRY"
For doubting that the hustle is worth it:
"I think we'rе gonna die trying, I wish we weren't this way."
-"EURO-COUNTRY"
For knowing the importance of speaking out when it matters:
"And no one says it out loud but I know it can be better if we hound it."
-"EURO-COUNTRY"
For realizing you've been cruel in love:
"I waited for love with a cricket bat. I got what I want and I kicked it flat."
-"When a Good Man Cries"
For not being sure why you've treated someone badly:
"You know what I'm like. You don't deserve it."
-"When a Good Man Cries"
For wishing you could be different:
"I've never changed, but lord, I'm tryna."
-"When a Good Man Cries"
For refusing to admit when you're off base:
"Then get to thinking I have been wrong, though. Let me explain, 'cause I'm never wrong though."
-"The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station"
For when your foul mood has colored your perspective:
"Things are ugly to me, I get it."
-"The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station"
For when you've been going over people's heads:
"Mm, this is making no sense to the average listener. Let me try to explain myself in a few words."
-"The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station"
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For losing track of time:
"Happy new year. Lord, I forgot what day it was."
-"Tree Six Foive"
For trying to get over your feelings for someone undeserving:
"Loving you's a fog that wouldn't clear, but let me hit defrost."
-"Tree Six Foive"
(Photo credit: Sarah Doyle)
For not wanting to waste another day with someone:
"There's only tree six foive days a year and I don't want you here if I can help it."
-"Tree Six Foive"
For admitting you can't dance:
"I have no grace. I haven't found it on my way to dancefloors or to tunes."
-"Tree Six Foive"
For when you were too young to be treated that way:
"I was just a baby. Thought that you could maybe try to be a little gentle or soft with me."
-"Tree Six Foive"
For hoping the confidence boost from posting a hot picture will solve all your problems:
"Oh, baby, heed my solution and take a sexy picture, take a sexy picture of me."
-"Take a Sexy Picture of Me"
For not growing up into the person you thought you would:
"Where goes my potential? Oh, she's up in Heaven."
-"Take a Sexy Picture of Me"
For realizing you've lived a sheltered life indoors:
"I got a little too good at waiting for adventure, so I stayed inside so long. Waved my life so long."
-"Ready"
For when self-awareness is pointless when you're all alone:
"Oh, what's the use of grounding with no one there around ya?"
-"Ready"
For finally feeling prepared to take those risks:
"I've been here before, so afraid to fall, but now I'm ready."
-"Ready"
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For waiting on everything you deserve:
"I don't think I'm being impatient. Karma couldn't come too soon."
-"Ready"
For trying to help someone rediscover their spark:
"Where'd you go, crazy girl boss? Where'd you go, are you still lost?"
-"Iceberg"
For when you can't stop thinking about Titanic:
"I really think Rose could've made room on that floating door."
-"Iceberg"
For letting someone know you're there for them:
"Hey girl, it's fine. Just break, just cry. I'm here tonight."
-"Iceberg"
(Photo credit: Sarah Doyle)
For feeling like the world is moving on without you:
"I'm 23 and everyone is having fun except for me."
-"Coronation St."
For having one of those nights:
"I'm too tired to make my dinner and I think I'm too tired to fall asleep."
-"Coronation St."
For getting caught up in yourself:
"I can't care about anyone but me."
-"Coronation St."
For never quite feeling whole:
"All I do evеr is try to figure out what I'm missing."
-"Coronation St."
For having an overactive imagination and doing nothing with it:
"My thoughts collect like a pile of dust in the corner of the room where I spend all my time."
-"Coronation St."
For when grief is a strange thing:
"I don't miss you like I should."
-"Lord, Let That Tesla Crash"
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For reflecting on the follies of youth:
"We were loud, and so young, and so damaged and annoying."
-"Lord, Let That Tesla Crash"
For when the romance is one-sided:
"I'd call you my baby, but it calls alarm."
-"Running/Planning"
For yearning to escape from your problems:
"I keep on running, planning, running, planning."
-"Running/Planning"
For always taking your infatuation to the next level:
"I'm a writer, I don't do crushes. I do problematic attentions."
-"Janis Joplining"
For mostly living in your head:
"I was in the garden and I was in my mind."
-"Janis Joplining"
For struggling to take responsibility:
"I've been blaming it on anyone that isn't me, but know that it won't work."
-"Janis Joplining"
(Photo credit: Sarah Doyle)
For keeping your truth to yourself:
"If we keep these thoughts in our head, babe, they'll never hurt us, no."
-"Janis Joplining"
For wishing you were dangerous:
"My style icon is the Wolverinе."
-"I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby!"
For feeling like a shadow of your former self:
"Parties, I used to love to party in the old days. Heartbeat, I used to have one of them too."
-"Where Are Your Kids Tonight?"
For not being sure how to jump start the rest of your life:
"Aw, shoot, I put my life on pause and I can't find any way out."
-"Aw, Shoot!"
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For donning a massive country Western hairdo:
"My hair is going high as Heaven, so long and softer than a bed."
-"Nashville"
For when being responsible has also made you isolated:
"Lonely, I didn't know good choices make you lonely."
-"Where Are Your Kids Tonight?"
For wondering about the future:
"What's left for me but poetry and getting really old?"
-"California"
For fully cutting someone out of your life:
"Ooh, have fun, ooh, have fun, 'cause I'm done, I-I'm done, I-I'm done."
-"Have Fun!"
For struggling to hold on to the good things in life:
"Everything fun falls apart and leaves me here."
-"Where Are Your Kids Tonight?"
For when you've been bored out of your mind:
"Everything is boring. Every day, there's more nothing to do."
-"Peter Bogdanovich"
For starting fresh after a bad breakup:
"A new game, scrapping my life."
-"California"
For when a breakup seems to take everything away from you:
"I hate that your friends hate me now. I hate me on my own, own, own."
-"I Don't Really Care for You"
For having to act like everything's fine:
"Mourning, no one at this party knows I'm mourning."
-"Where Are Your Kids Tonight?"
For feeling like a character in a melancholy country song:
"I'm a sad country song of a woman."
-"Aw, Shoot!"
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