More songs by Madison Cunningham
Description
It seems as if someone accidentally turned on a tape recorder at the very moment when a person's whole world is collapsing inside - quietly, almost politely. The voice sounds as if it is coming from inside a glass ball, where the air is heavy and the words are fragments of thoughts that did not have time to become confessions. Love here is not romantic, but physiological: it breaks bones, twists joints, leaves bruises on the vocal cords.
And yet, inside this fragility, there is something painfully alive. As if the heart, having broken, decided to continue working out of pure stubbornness. It's cold, empty, but strangely calm: you no longer wait for forgiveness, you just move on, dragging your own guilt behind you - like a trail, like a memory, like proof that you still know how to feel.
Filmed by Paige Stark
Editing: Olivia Stable
Lyrics and translation
Original
I'm walking around
Dragging along
A heart wide open
As a broken jaw
And it's never been so quiet
In the pressure machine
No one's ever smiling
Back at me
But a look can draw blood
So easily
And I wish I could think
Of anything but the cold
I put my weight in your arms and I fell right through
Put my weight in your arms and I fell
Weight in your arms and you let
Me fall right through
I may never forgive you
You may never forgive me
We may never forgive each other
But I may never, I may never
Forgive myself
Your hair was on my pillow
Your charms undressed
Like treacherous waters
Or a treasure chest
And I didn't know what I was seeing
You or me
I abandon my post
And you pick at the latch
You can't find the heart
So you lean on the craft
But broken people
Don't have to break people too
I put my weight in your arms
And I fell right through
Put my weight in your arms
And I fell
Weight in your arms and I let
You tell me to
I may never forgive you
You may never forgive me
We may never forgive each other
But I may never
I may never
Forgive myself
I'm always talking to you
It's a run-on sentence
Sometimes I swear you can hear me
Talking to you
I may never forgive you
I may never forgive you