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There's a line in this song that carries most of the weight: "I can sit in the pain, it still rhymes well with rain". I'd had the idea that the video should simply be me sitting on a chair out in a field singing the song. On the day before filming the video, life once again - and this time quite literally - came breaking in; I was knocked off my bicycle in a hit-and-run incident, which left me with a fractured tibia. The filming plans were put on hold. Once I was able to hobble around in a moon boot, with a crutch, the video became about the struggle through real physical pain to carry that chair up a hill to a place where I end up sitting, looking out into the sun.
Filmed and edited by Robin Bottrell
Recorded at The Wool Hall with producer Luke Potashnick
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I can fall, face up
I won’t kick, I won’t buck
I can sit in the pain
It still rhymes well with rain
To be clear, you are gone
Got the crossword wrong
Red pen, red pen
Thought we’d pull through
I’m a backseat driver, I can’t stop you
Throwin’ eight years, three months out the window
White geraniums that won’t get watered
It’s a lot to let go of
I won’t call anymore
About the crack in the wall
About the bread that I burnt
Or the rush hour to work
There’s a note that I found
In a book on the ground
And it read as if we would pull through
I’m a backseat driver, I can’t stop you
Throwin’ eight years, three months out the window
White geraniums that won’t get watered
It’s a lot to let go of
A lot to let go of
White geraniums that won’t get watered
It’s a lot to let go of
A lot to let go of
I can fall, face up
I won’t kick, I won’t buck
I can sit in the pain
It still rhymes well with rain
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#indiefolk
‘White Geraniums’ by Emily Barker is out now, stream it here: emilybarker.com/whitegeraniums
Subscribe to Emily Barker’s channel for the latest music videos, behind the scenes, live performances and more: youtube.com/@EmilyBarker
Emily's latest album Fragile as Humans is out now: emilybarker.com/fragile
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There's a line in this song that carries most of the weight: "I can sit in the pain, it still rhymes well with rain". I'd had the idea that the video should simply be me sitting on a chair out in a field singing the song. On the day before filming the video, life once again - and this time quite literally - came breaking in; I was knocked off my bicycle in a hit-and-run incident, which left me with a fractured tibia. The filming plans were put on hold. Once I was able to hobble around in a moon boot, with a crutch, the video became about the struggle through real physical pain to carry that chair up a hill to a place where I end up sitting, looking out into the sun.
Filmed and edited by Robin Bottrell
Recorded at The Wool Hall with producer Luke Potashnick
=========================================
I can fall, face up
I won’t kick, I won’t buck
I can sit in the pain
It still rhymes well with rain
To be clear, you are gone
Got the crossword wrong
Red pen, red pen
Thought we’d pull through
I’m a backseat driver, I can’t stop you
Throwin’ eight years, three months out the window
White geraniums that won’t get watered
It’s a lot to let go of
I won’t call anymore
About the crack in the wall
About the bread that I burnt
Or the rush hour to work
There’s a note that I found
In a book on the ground
And it read as if we would pull through
I’m a backseat driver, I can’t stop you
Throwin’ eight years, three months out the window
White geraniums that won’t get watered
It’s a lot to let go of
A lot to let go of
White geraniums that won’t get watered
It’s a lot to let go of
A lot to let go of
I can fall, face up
I won’t kick, I won’t buck
I can sit in the pain
It still rhymes well with rain
=========================================
#indiefolk
