"Brain & Heart", sometimes stylized as "Brain and Heart", is a song by Melanie Martinez that is featured as the third track on her fourth extended play, After School EP. It is also the sixteenth track on the deluxe edition of Melanie's second album K-12.
The pre-release mix of the song leaked the day before it released.
Background[]
On July 15, 2020, during a Zoom meeting, when someone asked Melanie about her favorite lyrics on the EP, she stated that this song was her favorite.[2]
During a Q&A on Instagram on July 24, 2020, Melanie revealed that the song is about "the connection between your head and your heart" and that it is a "love song between them and how they need each other."[3]
Theme[]
In an Instagram post, Melanie revealed the theme of this song,[4]
Brain & Heart is about the importance of being balanced in your decision making. Using an equal amount of logic & emotion. (Temperance Energy)
Melanie Martinez
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Help me when I'm at a loss for words
Bring up all my memories
Folder please, in the temporal lobe
False loving, when I was illogical
Didn't know they held each others' hands
'Cause they made one whole
[Pre-chorus 1]
Brain stem yells "Temperature, arise now"
Sweat raindrops down my silky flesh
Buttering up my consciousness
Cook, cook, cook now; ability to sleep sound
Throughout the star times; an illusion
If you just remove it
[Chorus]
When did humans start to separate
Brain and heart as if they could stay alive alone?
Flip it around the other way
If they were apart and you had no 'power-start'
or no database, only a shell remains
What fun is it to be so calculated
Or be taken advantage of 'cause your heart's too trusting?
Silent expressed, push my head into my chest
Bind them up, forever wed
"Don't drift too far," they said
[Verse 2]
Help me when I'm too detached and cold
Give me the vitality that I need to trust love more
Blood to the water, neither can fuel us alone
Fervency in my arteries; passion bloomin' through my bones
[Pre-chorus 2]
Heart strings trigger emotions, dreams
Agape loves a journey, red rivers connect all of me
But, but, be it steadfast, don't you disappoint me
Sometimes I think you're all I need
Wise beyond belief
[Chorus]
When did humans start to separate
Brain and heart as if they could stay alive alone?
Flip it around the other way
If they were apart and you had no 'power-start'
or no database, only a shell remains
What fun is it to be so calculated
Or be taken advantage of 'cause your heart's too trusting?
Silent expressed, push my head into my chest
Bind them up, forever wed
"Don't drift too far," they said
[Verse 1]
Help me when I'm at a loss for words
Bring up all my memories
Folder please, in the temporal lobe
False loving, when I was illogical
Didn't know they held each others' hands
'Cause they made one whole
[Pre-chorus 1]
Brain stem yells "Temperature, arise now"
Sweat raindrops down my silky flesh
Buttering up my consciousness
Cook, cook, cook now; ability to sleep sound
Throughout the star times; an illusion
If you just remove it
[Chorus]
When did humans start to separate
Brain and heart as if they could stay alive alone?
Flip it around the other way
If they were apart and you had no 'power-start'
or no database, only a shell remains
What fun is it to be so calculated
Or be taken advantage of 'cause your heart's too trusting?
Silent expressed, push my head into my chest
Bind them up, forever wed
"Don't drift too far," they said
[Verse 2]
Help me when I'm too detached and cold
Give me the vitality that I need to trust love more
Blood to the water, neither can fuel us alone
Fervency in my arteries; passion bloomin' through my bones
[Pre-chorus 2]
Heart strings trigger emotions, dreams
Agape loves a journey, red rivers connect all of me
But, but, be it steadfast, don't you disappoint me
Sometimes I think you're all I need
Wise beyond belief
[Chorus]
When did humans start to separate
Brain and heart as if they could stay alive alone?
Flip it around the other way
If they were apart and you had no 'power-start'
or no database, only a shell remains
What fun is it to be so calculated
Or be taken advantage of 'cause your heart's too trusting?
Silent expressed, push my head into my chest
Bind them up, forever wed
"Don't drift too far," they said
Official versions[]
Version | Released on | Release date | Producer(s) | Creation date | Length | |
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▶ | Final | After School EP • K-12 (After School - Deluxe Edition) | September 25, 2020 | Michael Keenan | 2019 | 3:23 |
Instrumental | Unreleased | December 8, 2020 (leaked) | Michael Keenan | 3:23 | ||
Demos | ||||||
"03 Brain & Heart" (pre-release mix) | Unreleased | September 24, 2020 (leaked) | Michael Keenan | 2019 | 3:25 |
Live performances[]
"Brain & Heart" was performed at:
- CAN'T WAIT TILL I'M OUT OF K-12 (debut performance)
- All Hallow's Eve (lip-synced)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This song interpolates "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez.
- Out of all of Melanie's songs, Brain & Heart is tied with "Pity Party" for having the most writers.
- This is because the writers of Jennifer Lopez's "If You Had My Love" were also credited.
- Melanie wrote this song while staying in Hawaii in February 2019.
- According to Melanie, this is her favorite song on the EP lyrically. [citation needed]
- On the first verse and pre-chorus, Melanie sings about the brain while on the second verse and pre-chorus, Melanie sings about the heart.
- This song and "Test Me" are the only non-explicit songs on After School EP.
- The promotional photo for "Brain & Heart" is supposed to represent the song on the extended play, as the outfits and hairstyles match the ones featured on Spotify's canvas.
- This song has never been sung in front of an audience, as Melanie has only performed it on the online show CAN'T WAIT TILL I'M OUT OF K-12 and aerial hoop stunts.
References[]
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Featured tracks | Notebook • Test Me • Brain & Heart • Numbers • Glued • Field Trip • The Bakery |
Scrapped tracks | Absorb • Clockwork • Copy Cat (ft. Tierra Whack) • Erase Her • Fire Drill • Function • History • Lost & Found • Paper Cut • Spin The Bottle • Trophy • Under The Desk |
Related tracks | Chrysalis • Maze • The Tunnel |
Characters | Abuelita • Bunnies |
Producers | Blake Slatkin • Melanie Martinez (exec.) • Michael Keenan |
Extra | K-12 • CAN'T WAIT TILL I'M OUT OF K-12 • All Hallow's Eve • Merchandise |