Songfacts®:

• Over billowing synths, vocalist Alex Trimble contemplates the pace of change.
  
  We're running out of luck
  I can feel the change
  Holding onto little pieces of what remains
  And was it not enough?
  
  Trimble mourns the decline of those long-lasting moments in culture. "We live in such a disposable society," he said. "We just need to take the time to think and reflect about why things are there in the first place."
• Well, I've been lucky, I'm a lucky man
  But I never saw this part of the plan
  
  Two Door Cinema Club released "Lucky" as the second single from Keep On Smiling. The initial upbeat lyrics, shimmering synths and buoyant bassline suggest "Lucky" will be an optimistic song. But as the song unfolds, it becomes clear Trimble, in keeping with the album title, is singing of the flame going out while trying to keep his chin up.
  
  "We've always been at our best when, on the surface, it comes across as extremely bubble-gum-optimistic, but at the same time, there is a much darker, tongue-in-cheek layer beneath," bassist Kevin Baird told Apple Music. "In more modern times of Two Door Cinema Club, we have become a lot less accusatory about those topics that we want to talk about and more accepting of the crazy world that we live in today - pointing towards it and discussing, but trying to put a brave face on. You just have to keep getting on with life."
• TDCC wrote and recorded Keep On Smiling in the waning days of the COVID-enforced lockdowns. Dan Grech Marguerat (Halsey, Lana Del Rey, George Ezra) helped Trimble to produce this track.