Laufey

There weren't many kids around me who had to go back home and practice every single day.

And I often felt like my voice wasn't being heard.

And I was ready to do anything to get my voice to be heard.

And I knew that the first step to that was trying to...

get out of Iceland and see if perhaps my voice would resonate more in the big world where I wasn't an odd fish.

Yeah, this song is written about a friendship breakup.

I found that there are not many songs about breaking up with a friend, but it's a pain that can sometimes be more painful than breaking up with a romantic lover.

So I wanted to write about this experience that I had and

I think especially when women fall apart with women, there's such an interesting line of empathy that's between them.

It's kind of like I'll love you forever, but just not.

Don't be around me.

I rack my brain, spend hours and days.

I still can't figure it out.

What happened that evening?

Still learning to live without you I wonder what you tell your friends Which version of our fairy story The one where you walk out in glory Or the night I moved out in a hurry

I think about you always Tied together with a string I thought the lilies died by winter Then they bloomed again in spring It's a heartbreak Mark the end of my girlhood We'll never go back to that castle in Hollywood

No, I lived in the first apartment I moved into was this English storybook house in West Hollywood that had a turret.

And it was commissioned by Charlie Chaplin, actually.

in 1928, I believe.

Pure internet luck, I think.