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Heart Is Breaking

from Three Truths by Red Flower Lake

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Rahimah: This song came to me on a Friday morning. I know this because Fridays were when Abel would take the kids to The Rose Garden school in Afton and I would get to play my guitar alone in a quiet house (((dreamy))).
As I imagine many people can relate to, it's not always easy getting kids out of the house early in the morning (ours were small at the time but it can be challenging at any age). I often felt pretty awful upon their departure. This song speaks to that feeling of feeling wrecked by how hard it is to be a partnership in parenting, wrecked by being partners in love, wrecked knowing we are doing our very best and falling short - over and over again. Wrecked by loving but loving anyway because love is love any way you cut it, crack it, crumble it. I think if you’re smashing it though, it's probably time to walk away, take a break, get some fresh perspective, remember what love feels like.

Abel: I was in the hospital by the side of my younger brother who had crashed his motorcycle and was lucky (and grateful) to have lived. I realized, when he asked me if I had ever broken anything in my body, that the only thing I had broken in my body was my heart.
Heartbreak is the most painful thing I have felt.
Heart is Breaking is about me confessing that my heart is feeling like it's actually out of my chest, raw and exposed, and extremely sensitive, but also an offering of all I have, my life, my love.

Rahimah had recorded herself playing this song on her iPhone that Friday morning when I took the kids to school and she texted it to me later in the week with a couple other songs she thought I might dig. I immediately got inspired and ended up sampling multiple bits of the recording and creating a demo beat. The intro is the original recording. We started this song when I had my studio upstairs in our house and we finished it six years later in my studio downstairs.

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from Three Truths, track released September 3, 2020
Music and Lyrics Written by Red Flower Lake

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