“Mountains” is the closing track on Bat For Lashes’s fifth album, Lost Girls. It’s a love song about someone you can’t penetrate, likening them to a mountain.
[Verse 1]
You know I couldn't see which way to turn
Fell down at the floor at your feet, begged you to let me burn
Told you that I'm just too afraid to stay here in your arms
Drive me off the edge of this cliff
And you can watch me crash dance
[Chorus]
'Cause we both know, it’s not an easy ride
When it goes up in smoke, I just want to hide
Can we make it right like it was at the start?
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
[Verse 2]
So you turned to the mountain, she started to sing soft
Elvis in the midnight air, I lost your body and soul to the fog
A hundred forks in the road, a hundred knives in my heart
You said go sing to the lovers, don't ever look over your shoulders
[Chorus]
'Cause we both know, it’s not an easy ride
When it goes up in smoke, I just want to hide
Can we make it right like it was at the start?
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
[Chorus]
We both know it’s not an easy ride
When it goes up in smoke, I just want to hide
Can we make it right like it was at the start?
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
Sing to me in the dark, sing to me in the dark
Mountains was written by Natasha Khan.
Mountains was produced by Natasha Khan & Charles Scott IV.
Bat for Lashes released Mountains on Fri Sep 06 2019.
Natasha Khan explained the song before playing it on her livestream in May 2020:
A lot of these songs [on Lost Girls] have been inspired by the desert and going out to Death Valley and painting mountains. This one is sort of a love song, just likening somebody to just being like a mountain, somethi...