“I wrote the lyrics for ‘Autumn’ in the car while listening to an audio book of Toni Morrison’s God Help The Child, her last novel (she read all her own audiobooks…so cool!). Like much of Morrison’s work, it also talks about reckoning with constrictive narratives. There’s this section three quarters...
I don't miss you, Autumn
So much as the way it felt when I knew that you were gone
Back when my clarity of purpose seemed so strong
Now it just clutches, keeps me from moving on
I used to think that it was me who bore your memory
But could it be that memory made me who I am?
The expectation in my smallest of demands
Was you return, just as you were
I longed to make sense of your perspective
How you said sadness takes the shape of burning stars
How could you feel a thing so far from where we are?
A thousand years go by
And always they compelled to pass in static
We thought that innocence was something that could last
Now when I walk around, I wear it as a mask
So I won't see no one see me
Autumn was written by Theo Hilton.
Nana Grizol released Autumn on Fri Jun 26 2020.