Track 7 | Heaviness In The Head
“Clarity comes with the sunlight, but I want a light more forgiving.”
Eliza Delf: A response to feeling the weariness of life’s low moments – with a determination to reclaim the positive and hopeful elements of life. A spirit of optimism and resilience underpins the choruses. Life goes on, life gets better.
Jon Loomes: This was one of the first songs I tackled for this album. Eliza's pentatonic melody for the verses seemed to me to shift between keys, so I've had the strings build up from a simple drone into rich bitonal clusters, resolving to more familiar harmonic territory for the chorus. Although born of darkness, hope is here in the form of a borrowed theme from Holst's Planets – Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity.
Lyrics
Heaviness In The Head
There’s a heaviness in the head today,
There are stones tied to the body.
A flickering projection plays,
the windowpane has gone foggy.
A touch from skin would help with the moment.
A grey backdrop acts as a solvent.
Don’t wait, it won’t pass.
Through the looking glass.
There’s a forest in my eyes and a brook in my brain.
Pull the flowers over my head, asphyxiate yourself sane.
Keep breathing, even when you’re alone.
Don’t dig up the seeds you’ve already sown.
No-one will ever know, no one will ever know.
I’ll go where the bees go,
Begin at the beginning.
Clarity comes with the sunrise,
But I want a light more forgiving.
I’ll tear out my own eyes,
And wonder why I’m blind.
There’s a forest in my eyes and a brook in my brain.
Pull the flowers over my head, asphyxiate yourself sane.
Keep breathing, even when you’re alone.
Don’t dig up the seeds you’ve already sown.
No-one will ever know, no one will ever know.
No-one will ever know [x 12]
© Eliza Delf 2022