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During a Q&A on July 24<sup>th</sup>, 2020 on Instagram, she reveals 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."<ref>[[File:Q&A_Track_3.png|100px|left]]</ref> |
During a Q&A on July 24<sup>th</sup>, 2020 on Instagram, she reveals 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."<ref>[[File:Q&A_Track_3.png|100px|left]]</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:27, 25 September 2020
"Brain & Heart" is the third track on Melanie Martinez's fourth extended play (EP), After School.
Background
On July 15th, 2020, during a Zoom meeting, when someone asked Melanie about her favorite lyrics on the EP, she stated that this song was her favorite. [1]
During a Q&A on July 24th, 2020 on Instagram, she reveals 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."[2]
Theme
In a September 2020 Instagram post about After School, Melanie describes the song as being about the importance of being balanced in your decision making and "using an equal amount of logic & emotion". [3]
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Help me when I'm at a loss for words
Bring up all of my memories for the please in the temporal lobe
False lovin', when I was illogical
Didn't know they held each other's hands as they made one whole
Brain stem feels temperature
Rise now, sweat raindrops down my silky flesh
Bout to wring out my consciousness
Quick, quick, quick now
Ability to sleep sound
Throughout the start 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
Heart strings trigger emotion streams
A God belongs, 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
Videos
Trivia
- This song samples "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez.
- Melanie wrote this song during a travel to Hawaii in February of 2019.
