Bones: Video and Back Story

15 AUG 2020

‘Bones’, newly released alongside ‘Buyer’s Remorse’, is a pretty special track to me - it’s a song that grew from a sequence of emotive chords coupled with a poem I’d written not long before. It’s often not until after I’ve written and released a song that I understand what I was actually writing about, or what I was feeling. When I write poetry, it comes from a place where I’m not really thinking, just allowing words to flow, and my music works the best when it comes from that place too. So this particular song grew from two merging elements, both birthed from that same subconscious space: the poem and the chord sequence. Now, listening back months after it was first written, I understand much better where it came from. Writing in this way is such a personal endeavour because it comes from a deeply authentic place, and it can be quite scary to let that be seen, and to openly discuss it. And that, in a way is what the song is actually about!

It bears a theme I think many would identify with, and that’s that of not quite feeling comfortable in your own skin, because if such-and-such a thing about you were different, you might perhaps be more acceptable. And so you try to reflect and mirror what it is that you think you should be, or that you think people want you to be - you hide elements of your innate self because you don’t like these parts of you and don’t think they’re good enough on whichever level. But in the end, doing so only leads you to extinguish your own light and your own uniqueness: there’s only one of each of us, after all! And so this video is an abstract representation of this: it’s a meander through a kaleidoscopic mirroring of trees. The mirroring replication is beautiful, yet it is not natural: a tree has limbs that bend, bow, and intermingle with others, yet no limb is ever exactly the same. I hope in some way that this gives you a nudge to be the beautiful you you’ve been blessed to be, and I hope you enjoy the video! Lyrics below.

Stream on Spotify here

Buy on Bandcamp here

Listen on Soundcloud here

I, I will bend limb for you
Twist my form, contort
Make the natural unnatural
If that is what you want
But see these bones are not safe
Brittle, and you'll hear them break
As I bend towards you

Hide my colours just to see
If this new outline
Is more pleasing than the old one
But these shades of black and white
Are not the same
They'll steal my soul and slowly kill my song
As I bend towards you

Too late to give
You were indifferent
I lost my will
To be your shadow
Too late tonight
This love has lifted
And I won't bend towards you

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