Widowspeak - Even True Love

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Widowspeak - "Even True Love" from the 2020 album Plum on Captured Tracks.

On their fifth full-length Plum, Brooklyn band Widowspeak continue to craft a dreamy folk-pop sound, punctuated by vocalist (and former Tacoma, WA native) Molly Hamilton's serenely-sweet vocals. In a press release, Hamilton shared:

"Prior to writing “Even True Love,” I’d been sitting with some existential dread for the last year or so; honestly, sort of overwhelmed by the recognition that life is absurd and finite. The song itself is upbeat, kind of cruising. I was thinking about those youth-glorifying “yolo” type songs and that big mood, but also feeling like there’s so much more to it than that. Maybe because they only live once, humans tend to want to possess things: objects, success, money, experiences, people. True Love. Amassing the most and best of whatever while you can. But that never really landed with me; I think this one is more about being present with the unknown, letting things go a little more, trying not to hold on too tight."

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0:00.0	You're going to say. Try your night to see,
0:35.0	clear, is it curling.
0:40.0	You think that things like getting more
0:47.0	the only adding,
0:50.0	the only life
1:01.0	to live in the two life. It's a living in to a while.
1:05.0	Can't take it with you.
1:08.0	You can't take it with you.
1:10.0	Eating into a. Peating to know.
1:15.0	We can, we can. Oh, What you get all along, what you can. In the deepest, deepest wells,
1:46.0	in the shadow of sea,
1:50.0	I can see you shining and look they don't know.
1:57.0	Where you went to live with what you chose.
2:05.0	Even tonight.
2:09.0	We can take it with you.
2:12.0	Leave it with you.
2:17.0	Leave into a lot.
2:21.0	Again, again too now.
2:25.0	I'll take it with you.
2:28.0	Even to know, again, again, Oh, I'm not. There's nothing of the heart. Maybe you can't.
3:05.0	Maybe you can know see if you wonder. wonder There was nothing like. Leaving tonight, you can't take it with you.
3:39.0	Even tonight, you can't take it with you. Even tonight, you can into it.
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