Heathen is the portrait of a man who no longer believes in himself.
He has turned away from intimacy, from romance, from depth – not out of malice, but out of fear, out of exhaustion, perhaps also out of a feeling of not having earned it.
He lives in surfaces. In longing that no longer seeks anythin...
[Verse 1]
His heart is closing right when he is trusted
Who is he close with?
Feeling he owes his sense of self to lusting
Days without roses
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Oh, he lies to feel like he is someone new
Oh, why don't we leave and go to somewhere new?
[Chorus]
I wonder what is numbness
And what's a coma? Into the lights
Closing his eyes in the lane again
[Pre-Chorus 2]
He quit looking for the pears in paintings
Intimacy and its meanings
Leaving fondness for weakness
Strangers and desire
[Chorus]
I wonder what is numbness
And what's a coma? Into the lights
Closing his eyes in the lane
Driving head into mystery
[Bridge]
No feeling but the weight
I'm forgetting; he's forfeiting
I'm deciding that he's quitting now
Filled with the sin of power
This is what he's destined for
In this ugly hour
Again he goes
Where he's gone before
Losing all reason
He's never learning
[Outro]
Someone adored lifts him today
All who stay will know a true love
Someone adored lifts him today
All who stay will know a true love
Know a true love
Know a true
Know a true love
Know a true
Heathen was written by Daniel Tracy & George Clarke & Kerry McCoy & Shiv Mehra & Christopher Paul Johnson.
Heathen was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Deafheaven released Heathen on Tue Feb 25 2025.