Anna Wolf
Mother
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Anna Wolf has crafted a big emotional track with ‘Mother’, featuring a wonderous vocal that transmits every ounce of pain in the song.
This song is a story with lyrics full of loss. The instruments build from the acoustic guitar into an intense mix of strings, a whip beat, and a subtle synth. Wolf’s vocal crackles with electricity in this song because it’s so well connected to the theme.
‘I don’t wanna breathe,’ she sings. ‘I want to sing this note until I’m gasping for air.’ And it feels like lungs are emptying as emotion chokes through. It’s a powerful delivery. The superbly long note before the reprise is left a cappella, the slight vibrato ringing out into silence. Then the powerful run-in closes the song.
You can find more great songs like this one on the EP Romance Was Born.
Mother Lyrics
I can’t bear to say goodbye
To say goodbye again
To a friend, to a lover, to another
I refuse to feel this pain again
How am I supposed to see without your eyes
Maybe that’s the mistake I made
Now I have to learn how to see through mine
But I don’t wanna breathe
Breathe
I want to sing this note until I’m gasping for air
‘Cause I don’t want to breathe when you’re not here
I can’t bear to live this life
Pretend that it’s okay
That time will heal all this pain
Who the hell made that line up away
To the mother, to the father
To the lover, to the friend,
To the brother, to the sister
Couldn’t save them in the end
Maybe that’s the mistake we’re making
But I don’t want to breathe
I don’t wanna breathe (I don’t want to breathe)
I don’t wanna breathe (I don’t want to breathe)
I want to sing this note until I’m gasping for air
(I don’t want to breathe)
‘Cause I don’t want to breathe when you’re not here
(I don’t want to breathe)
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