The second single released by Former Hero for his debut album Footpaths. The song is about trying to distract your friends about your alcohol problem by using nonsense words to distract them. Therefore ‘foxgloves’ doesn’t have any particular meaning other than it’s a plant that’s horrifically poison...
[Intro]
We talk about foxgloves
We talk about foxgloves
We talk about f—
[Drop]
We talk about foxgloves
We talk about foxgloves
We talk about f—
[Bridge]
Foxgloves
We talk about foxgloves
Planted in row
And all the while I’ll ignore the problem
I’ll get so drunk I can barely make it home
I need your help but I can’t ask
So we talk about foxgloves
Planted in row
And all the while I’ll ignore the problem
I’ll get so drunk I can barely make it home
I need your help but I can’t ask
So we talk about foxgloves
Planted in row
And all the while I’ll ignore the problem
I’ll get so drunk I can barely make it home
I need your help but I can’t ask
So we talk about foxgloves
Slurring my words
All this beauty just makes me worse
I’ll get so drunk I don’t wanna go home
I know, I'm leaving soon
So we talk about foxgloves…
[Drop]
We talk about foxgloves
We talk about foxgloves
[Instrumental Outro]
Foxgloves was written by Former Hero.
Foxgloves was produced by Former Hero.
Former Hero released Foxgloves on Wed Jul 21 2021.
The song is written about a pretty bleak moment of last year when I was drinking very heavily. My friends were pretty worried about me, but I didn’t want to talk about it. Foxgloves are a super beautiful, almost unreal-looking flower that also happens to be extremely poisonous, so it felt like a goo...