"The Dark Dresses Lightly" (also known as "When the Dark Dresses Lightly"[1]) is the eighth track on the album What Happened to the Heart?.[2]
About the song[]
In an interview and promotional text for the album,[3] Aurora said: "I spent a lot of time drinking wine alone, speaking out loud, my heart and mind finally in conversation." She would record these conversations and later transcribe them as fodder for her songs, such as "The Dark Dresses Lightly" The song imagines the heart and the mind as two characters sitting at a table, drinking together – you can even hear the glasses clinking in the production. Aurora adds:
"So the heart says, 'Okay, now, we've gone too long without communicating. Tonight, we're going to get drunk, go deep into this shit, and explode on each other.' When all the ugly has come out, and you can kind of hear me having an orgasm because getting everything out is so delicious, and the healing can truly begin."
Talking about the track in a social media post,[4] Aurora said:
It's about [...] facing the real problem. And not fight and argue, and keep hurting each other with everything else. But to actually fix what is making you hurt each other in the first place. So it's kind of about breaking a conflict down to one simple thing and then trying to understand each other, rather than to hurt each other. Which I think, people, we hurt each other too much, all the time.
Lyrics[]
As I pour out my story
Drink me up
There is wine in every word
(Here's to us now, my dear)
(We're being strong now)
And the dark dresses lightly
Razor sharp
As it cuts right through my soul
(Here's to us now, my dear)
(It took too long)
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back when I needed you to know
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back when I needed you to know
I just want to cry
With you tonight
It's perfectly fine
To grieve the hurt that's gonna die
Let us dance to our sorrow
Make amends
There's so much you still don't know
(Here's to us now, my dear)
(We're going deep now)
All this fear
It's contagious
Now we're here
Let our glasses overflow
(Here's to us now, my dear)
(It took too long)
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back when I needed you to know
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back when I needed you to know
I just want to cry
With you tonight
It's perfectly fine
To grieve the hurt that's gonna die
Oh-oh-oh, can you feel it
Hm yeah, hm yeah, let me feel it
Louder, louder
Louder, louder, louder!
To the rivers
Through the water
All the floodgates
Are wide open
And the tower
Has fallen onto you
Let me feel it
Darling, darling, darling (To the rivers, through the water)
Let me feel it
Darling, darling, darling (All the floodgates are wide open)
Let me feel it
Darling, darling (And the tower has fallen onto you)
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
As I pour out my story
Drink me up
There is wine in every word
(Here's to us now, my dear
We're being strong now)
And the dark dresses lightly
Razor sharp
As it cuts right through my soul
(Here's to us now, my dear
It took too long)
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back
When I needed you to know
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back
When I needed you to know
Ooo I just want to cry
With you tonight
It's perfectly fine
To grieve the hurt that's gonna die
Let us dance to our sorrow
Make amends
There's so much you still don't know
(Here's to us now my dear
We're going deep now)
All this fear
It's contagious
Now we're here
Let our glasses overflow
(Here's to us now, my dear)
It took too long
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back
When I needed you to know
Guess I shouldn't have kept the knife in my heart for so long
Guess I shouldn't have held back
When I needed you to know
Ooo I just want to cry
With you tonight
It's perfectly fine
To grieve the hurt that's gonna die
Oh oh oh
Can you feel it
Mmmhhh yeah
Louder
Louder
Louder
Louder
To the river
To the water
Where the floodgates
Are wide open
And the tower
Has fallen onto you
Let me feel it darling
(darling darling)
Let me feel it darling
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Transcribed lyrics made by listening.
Audio[]
References[]
- ↑ Digital versions from Decca Records
- ↑ https://aurora.lnk.to/WhatHappenedtotheHeart
- ↑ https://www.teamwass.com/music/aurora/
- ↑ https://weibo.com/7757589971/OiXrX6m3I
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