Hollis - Heavy Hands
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Hollis - "Heavy Hands" from the 2020 half-life EP on Hollis.
Throughout the month of May, KEXP has been celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. We’re putting an extra spotlight this week on API artists with this week’s Song of the Day picks, capping off with Hollis’ “Heavy Hands.”
The Seattle local, whom you might recognize from her other project The Flavr Blue, is at her most soulful on the track. Waxing poetic on her inner struggles, Hollis finds self-realization that she can no longer wait for existential answers and finding power in the fact that there’s “no escaping myself.” Though it may read as a ballad, there’s empowerment to be found in Hollis’ words and her smooth, emotional vocal performance. — Dusty Henry
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I got heavy hands, but I'll still play for you because nothing is promised. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, with my heavy heart, dangling down in my body. |
| 0:19.6 | I waited, I waited, I waited till I would feel like |
| 0:25.0 | But it'll never happen not the way that it's been |
| 0:33.0 | waiting has just weighed me down |
| 0:37.0 | So I guess I let it out |
| 0:40.0 | Hey |
| 0:42.0 | Hey Now, hey, I can't think it. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, hey, I can't think it. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, yeah, yeah, |
| 0:50.0 | can be someone else. Someone else, hey, I know I'm speaking now. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, I got heavy hands, but I'll still sing for you because nothing is primary. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh with this heavy heart dangling down to the bottom. |
| 1:15.0 | I waited, I waited, |
| 1:18.0 | I waited, but something inside me expired. |
| 1:25.0 | Maybe it's a dead dream holding core inside me |
| 1:30.0 | Shadow of the girl I've been and all the things I'm keeping in yeah |
| 1:38.6 | hey yeah I can't be freaking the man |
| 1:45.0 | I can't be someone. |
| 1:48.0 | Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, |
| 1:51.0 | no escape in the state. No escaping myself. No escaping myself. |
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