Hold On, the penultimate and shortest song on the Any Human Friend album, slows down into a sighing lament for the lost simplicity of childhood.
In an interview with NME, Hackman describes:
I was in a depressive state at that point and it’s that idea of when you just feel so tired. I find as an ad...
Hold on
Let me turn the light out
The world's on my mind
I'm tired
Next time
This familiar light
Folds up my eyes
I'll try, I'll try
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on
I want to be a newborn
Reprise of the child, I'm tired
Green tide
It's the finish line
The words I won't find
I'll try, I'll try
hold on was written by Marika Hackman.
hold on was produced by David Wrench & Marika Hackman.
Marika Hackman released hold on on Fri Aug 09 2019.
This song was written on a little MIDI keyboard. I’d never written a song like that before. I went for something a bit like Massive Attack or Radiohead, and it swept off into this big beast that I didn’t really anticipate. It’s a sad song; I was going through a really severe bout of depression that...