‘Clinging to the Weekend’ is about the heartache caused by Lily’s brief return journeys to her hometown of Tamworth from London where she currently lives.
She talked about the song in detail with The Line of Best Fit:
I go back quite rarely, and I always find it quite difficult to leave. One of my...
[Verse 1]
I'm only coming to pour all my love over you
I'll split the difference in two, so I'm just around the corner
'Cause you called and you need to feel important so I come
You couldn't mean more, no you couldn't
I want you to know you're important, you're important
[Pre-Chorus]
How you gonna let it take over your head like that?
How you gonna let your body hurt like that?
[Chorus]
I feel me clinging to the weekend
I've got the fear of missing all your weekdays
Don't want you to forget where we came from
Don't want you to underestimate what you're made of
You know that I need ya, you better believe that
You better keep contact, yeah, you better had
[Verse 2]
You say you know better
I say you can't be any worse than me or any other girl
You're the top of my world
That was really hard to walk away and leave ya
Thinking I didn't say how much you mean, yeah
You're the top of my world
And I know we need each other deeply, completely
[Pre-Chorus]
I know that there's nobody else quite like her
We've been healing each other's hearts since the start of our worlds
[Chorus]
I feel me clinging to the weekend
I've got the fear of missing all your weekdays
Don't want you to forget where we came from
Don't want you to underestimate what you're made of
We're made from the same earth, created our own worth
You don't know what you deserve
[Bridge]
Have you forgotten you're the tough one?
Can you remember how you were when you were young?
Have you forgotten you're the brave one?
When we were standing on the edge you were the first to jump
You were the first to jump
[Pre-Chorus]
How you gonna let it take over your head like that?
How you gonna let your body hurt like that?
[Chorus]
I feel me clinging to the weekend
I've got the fear of missing all your weekdays
Don't want you to forget where we came from
Don't want you to underestimate what you're made of
You know that I need ya, you better believe that
You better keep contact, yeah, you better had
Clinging to the Weekend was written by Megan Markwick & Lily Somerville.
Clinging to the Weekend was produced by Rodaidh McDonald.
IDER released Clinging to the Weekend on Fri Jul 19 2019.
It literally fell out of my arse on the train. It’s a weird one – writing like that, and then trying to turn it into a song – it takes a while. You have to figure out what works, and you kill your darlings. That’s where Meg came in and was like, ‘get rid of that, get rid of that, that’s good but get...