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“She Lays Down” speaks of the postnatal depression frontman Matty Healy’s mother experienced after his birth. It’s the closing track on The 1975’s sophomore album, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It.
In a track by track review, NME described “She Lays Down” as:
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[Verse 1]
And she lays down on her bedroom floor
The chemicals that make her laugh
Don't seem to be working anymore
She tries her best, but it hurts her chest
And even though her sun is gone
She'd like to love her child nevertheless
[Verse 2]
My hair is brown, she's scared to touch
And she just wants to feel something
And I don't think that's asking for too much
And when I go to sleep is when she begins to weep
[Chorus]
She's appalled by not loving me at all
She wears a frown and dressing gown
When she lays down
[Verse 3]
We got a plane, oh to see my dad again
She prayed that we'd fall from the sky
Simply to alleviate the pain
Over water, hmm
Over terrain
The engines all go bust, we turned to dust
And I've no reason to complain, yeah
And in the end, she chose cocaine
But it couldn't fix her brain
[Chorus]
She's appalled
Oh, she doesn't love me at all
She wears a frown and dressing gown
When she lays down
[Outro]
That was it
She Lays Down was written by Ross MacDonald & Matty Healy & George Daniel & Adam Hann.
She Lays Down was produced by Matty Healy & George Daniel & Mike Crossey.
The 1975 released She Lays Down on Fri Feb 26 2016.
From an NME interview uploaded to YouTube celebrating “I Like It When You Sleep…” as album of the year in 2016.
‘The song that’s most personal to me, I mean, well She Lays Down is about my mum. It doesn’t get more personal than that. I’m sure my mum won’t mind me saying this but she told me a story...
“She Lays Down” is me trying to empathise with my mother’s postnatal depression.
— Matty Healy via Spotify