[Verse 1]
People like us, we play with a heavy balloon
We keep it up to keep the devil at bay, but it always falls way too soon
People like us, we play with a heavy balloon
We keep it up to keep the devil at bay, but it always falls way too soon
People like us, we play with a heavy balloon
We keep it up to keep the devil at bay, but it always falls way too soon
[Chorus]
I spread like strawberries
I climb like peas and beans
I've been sucking it in so long
That I'm busting at the seams
I spread like strawberries
I climb like peas and beans
I've been sucking it in so long
That I'm busting at the seams
[Verse 2]
In the middle of the day, it's like the sun on the Sahara when it's staring me down
Forcing all forms of life inside of me to retreat underground
It grows relentless like the teeth of a rat
It's just got to keep on gnawing at me
It constricts like a boa on a hose, nothing flows
So the pressure grows instead of the seed
[Verse 3]
People like us get so heavy and so lost sometimes
So lost and so heavy that the bottom is the only place that we can find
We get dragged down, down to the same spot enough times in a row
The bottom begins to feel like the only safe place that you know
But you know what
[Chorus]
I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
I climb like peas and beans
I've been sucking it in so long
That I'm busting at the seams
I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
I climb like peas and beans
I've been sucking it in so long
That I'm busting at the seams
[Outro]
I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
I climb like peas and beans
I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
I climb like peas and beans
And I'm busting at the seams
I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
Heavy Balloon was written by Fiona Apple.
The Secret Sisters released Heavy Balloon on Fri Jul 16 2021.
The two of us fell hard for Fiona Apple’s latest album Fetch the Bolt Cutters. The angst and emotion wrapped up in her songs seemed timely in the midst of a global pandemic and lockdown. “Heavy Balloon” felt like a song we could shape with our own sound, and we specifically wanted to channel the spi...