“Hanging” is the second single from Marika Hackman’s upcoming album “Big Sigh”, set to be released on January 12, 2024.
The single was released along with an announcement of the album and the UK/Europe tour supporting it, which starts in March 2024.
Marika shared that the song is about “reflecting...
[Verse]
Hanging on your every word
And any time you talk, the rope is burning
Maybe I'm just brave when I’m asleep
I tell you how you kill me in my dreams
I wouldn't like to hold my breath
To be pushed underwater when I'm coming up for air
Somebody good shouldn’t feel so bad
Well, I must've done something to deserve to feel this sad
[Chorus]
And my heart won't grow
With your fingers down my throat
It's a hard brown stone
Like an embryo
[Post-Chorus]
It will never be a part of me worth finding
[Verse]
I'm going home to intubate
'Cause every time we talk I suffocate
Remember when you said I'm a disease
And how you'd like to kill me in your dreams
I couldn’t help but hold my breath for a change in direction
Now I’m running out of air
Somebody good shouldn't be so cruel
And I know you don’t mean it, but I'm breaking like a wound
[Chorus]
And my heart won't grow
With your fingers down my throat
It's a hard brown stone
Like an embryo
[Post-Chorus]
It will never be a part of me worth finding
[Outro]
Yeah, you were a part of me
I’m so relieved it hurts
Yeah, you were a part of me
I'm so relieved it hurts
Yeah, you were a part of me
I'm so relieved it hurts
Hanging was written by Marika Hackman.
Hanging was produced by Marika Hackman.
Marika Hackman released Hanging on Wed Oct 11 2023.
Whether it’s a song or a poem or whatever, I’m all for a bit of candid, sort of domestic, lyricism. But it’s also the point to really take it somewhere even deeper and darker—the furthest you can go. That’s what I was doing on this one. It was a relationship I’d been in that had gone on for a while—...