The lead single off of Meishi Smile’s …Belong album, “Pastel” is a track ultimately about the parallels between romantic and familial loss.
Meishi Smile discussed with The Fader
having mainly taken influence from two different sources, writing the lyrics during the end of a relationship, and at the...
[Verse 1]
Hearts seem to half-light my will
Thin bruises pass times, thin veil
I see you suffer slow here
I'll lie, "not everything dies"
[Chorus]
Pastel white
Slows your heart
Though I say "stay here"
Pastel white
Slows your heart
Though I say "stay here"
[Verse 2]
Faint seams turn halfway, harm will
Reject, lest they may cry still
Your blood reflects me, bright here
I'll lie, "not everything dies"
[Chorus]
Pastel white
Slows your heart
Though I say "stay here"
Pastel white
Slows your heart
Though I say "stay here"
[Spoken]
"The real feeling, the broken feeling. Without you now, slowly passing. Slowly knowing what you breathed once was right here. Days you reject. Growing lonely, growing colder. A pain too deep in the summer, like an IV that drips through a torn vein. Missing you makes me feel so ill. The feeling breathes, you plant the seed, and the simplicity of my heart shatters underneath the reality of the world"
[Chorus]
Pastel white
Slows your heart
Though I say "stay here"
Pastel white
Slows your heart
Though I say "stay here"
Meishi Smile released Pastel on Tue Oct 06 2015.