About this song
- “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)” is the second single released for Car Seat Headrest’s thirteenth album, The Scholars. On the vinyl and libretto, the song has the subtitle, Part 1: The Companions. A backstory of the album’s concept is found only on the libretto, most likely written by the albums poet, The Archbishop Guillermo Guadalupe del Toledo: "Whether the fragments I have been able to locate were intended to make up a literary or a dramatic work, I cannot say. The text is set mainly in unrhymed verse, but references to stage directions pop up sporadically in some fragments. What is clear is that the text is meant to represent the voices of many different characters, with their stories woven together in a manner similar to the Canterbury Tales. I have included a brief description of each character and their plotline along with the song intended to represent them. Appearing in several songs is the “Chanticleer”, a mysterious figure who, in the original text, seems to be responsible for conveying the whole tale to the audience" Within the album’s narative, the band explained: "Beolco is a student of Parnassus University, a college founded in ages past by a famed playwright known as the Scop. Beolco is deeply fond of both the college and the Scop, believing himself to be spiritually connected or reincarnated from the playwright. He yearns for confirmation of this secret belief." “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)” interpolates lyrics from the traditional song titled “Il est né, le divin Enfant”. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
