hanahaki (bloom) - lyric video

Описание: LINER NOTES: so, obviously this is ... basically a pop song. definitely the most poppy song on the EP, and also it was weirdly the hardest one to record because i kept hate, hate, hating my voice on it. tbh i still don’t love how i sound -- i think it’s kind of like, airy? -- but i do think it sounds imperfect in a way that kind of fits the song. that’s neither here nor there, i’m just a bitter perfectionist, which may surprise you guys given my personality and behavior on my terrible blog.

anyway, i wrote bloom for me. well, sort of. i wrote this song about how life is good, and also hard. life is good, and life is also so, so hard. it is so full of things that are scary and thorny and hurt, things you don’t forget, things you think you left behind but turn out to have been living in little pockets of your heart the whole time. we’re all just these tiny exposed creatures running around in the world with no protection!!! our dumb little hearts are so easy to break!!

but i think the thing about being human, the really beautiful thing, is that actually we can’t stop being hopeful. we can’t stop falling in love with things, and having good days, and tending to our feelings. the truth about life is that you can’t stop growing. it isn’t possible. every day things happen and you have to react to them, every day the world comes back to you. there isn’t anyplace that you can go that sunshine and people and love and joy won’t find you, even if only in little bursts.

“you left your love untended / still it grew in reprimand.” we can try to shut ourselves down but the fact is that there is always something. there is always something that we love, always something that flowers. and this song is about accepting that and tending to it, letting it flourish. we have to; it’s the only universal human directive. survive. just keep surviving. things will break our hearts and we will repair it by making the broken bits beautiful.

there are things i’m bad at, emotionally; there are things that really, really scare me, about being vulnerable, about letting people in. i think there’s a whole garden in me, but i don’t always let people see it. this song is about opening the window and letting yourself grow out into the world, being brave and kind and open even though you know that it will hurt sometimes.

i’m not always good at it. but i’m trying!! i’m gonna keep trying!! babes, let’s all open a window and water our goddamn heart plants!!

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music & lyrics: molly ofgeography
vocals: molly ofgeography
instrumentation: greg critchley
produced, mixed, and mastered by greg critchley

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