Pair this guitar with this beautiful British voice and you have the recipe for some SOUL. I recently purchased a guitar and this song makes me wanna teach myself on turbo. So good throughout and worth a listen with focus on it on it’s own right!
We are quickly drawn into this beautiful dance between the two, and when everything opens up at :52 it’s what I imagine the beginning of a psychedelic trip is like. A kaleidoscope of sound and color.
The opening lyrics are such a great intro with that guitar. We know we’re in for something. LAUREL has this voice that is somehow simultaneously able to purr and be sharp as a dagger. With a sprinkle of gravel. It really is special.
“Put his hands on my face, the kind of touch that made me chasing down, like it’s true love, just tear me up, tear me down, ooh, like it was true, oh, every word that you’re saying, and God, keep me staying, I’m like gold, lord, pull me in, then let me go, should’ve known the first time you played with me like I was a devil, and I played with you like you were just a man, wanna lay with you but I’m never better, from your God these are the days”
That kind of prose is present throughout.
“Take what you need, darling, I’m just here for you, give me your love and physical affection, give me the worst of you to hold, didn’t take me to the heavens, give me the best of all the grace, ooh, you make life worth living, ooh you make life worth living“
This is definitely one of the more poetic songs we’ve heard on the countdown so far and the more I listen to it the more I appreciate her performance as well as the sound mixing.
My favorite part of this song is how bluesy it is. We are pining for someone in this song. Are they pulling away? Do they belong to someone else? Both? LAUREL channels that complication.
everything, etc. 
This one is so interesting. Full of ambiguity… is she implying that her lover is actually a god, or God? (Obviously not “just a man”)… and she is the devil? Or is it just a tumultuous on/off relationship with someone who creates perfect moments and disappears and disappoints at others?
It also strikes me as one of the only songs I can think of where the lyrics do not rhyme AT ALL. They don’t really even try. And somehow that’s not jarring? It’s like some free form poetry put to music.
Also sounds a bit like Florence + The Machine… which can be nothing but a compliment!
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I love how gray it is! I def felt more of the latter. Hahaha I’m gonna relisten because I didn’t notice the not rhyming!
Absolutely right on the Florence vibes! Nailed it.
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