Achilles Heart is a song coming to terms with pain – about keeping your heart open despite it being wounded. It’s so natural to want to close up when you’ve been hurt, or betrayed. It’s always a risk to love something, or someone, because the more love you give, the more open you are to deeply feel...
[Verse 1]
Always under
No one tells you it's gonna hurt
To get your stars crossed
Never over
Still sleep in your t-shirt
It's a paradise lost
[Pre-Chorus]
And all the better angels of my nature
The only thing to keep me going mad
Oh, it'd be easy for me to hate you but I just feel sad
[Chorus]
So I get high on a cloud and I'm hiding above all
I don't wanna think, so I drink 'til I double
And you took everything away, so give it back to me
And it is not what I thought, but it's where the thrill is
Straight shot to my Achilles heart
[Verse 2]
I know it's wrong, I go along but I, I just feel right
Oh-oh, oh-oh
When we're sleeping, you keep me on the shadow side
[Pre-Chorus]
And all the better angels of my nature
Only thing to keep me going mad
It'd be so easy for me to hate you but I just feel sad
[Chorus]
So I get high on a cloud and I'm hiding above all
Oh, I don't wanna think, so I drink 'til I double
And you took everything away, so give it back to me
And it is not what I thought, but it's where the thrill is
Straight shot to my Achilles heart
[Post-Chorus]
And you took everything away, so give it back to me
And it is not what I thought, but it's where the thrill is
[Outro]
Always under
No one tells you it's gonna hurt
To get your stars crossed
Washington released Achilles Heart on Thu Jul 23 2020.