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"Garden's Heart" is a song written and performed by Natasha Khan and Jon Hopkins for the soundtrack of Kevin Macdonald’s 2013 film How I Live Now.
Background[]
Natasha wrote most of the song's lyrics in her pyjamas, in bed, after reading "some old English pastoral poetry" and came up with the song's shoegaze-y guitar line, while Jon "fannied around" with the production and spun a web of electronics around the song.[1]
"I cried, like, four times," says Natasha of her first viewing of the film. "A lot of the things that I was working on for my last album, The Haunted Man, were of a similar theme, so I felt really attached to them already: there's a love story, there's stunning countryside, the terrible reality of being pulled apart by war. It hit me really hard."
Music video[]
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Released | 1 September 2013 |
| Length | 4:15 | |
| Director | Natasha Khan | |
| Producer | Alasdair Flind | |
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| Vevo views | 539.162 | |
Lyrics[]
We lived in a garden's heart
And opened it up for the sky
The world spun itself away
But I was coming alive by your side
And now the sky is snowing out
And we are talking from so far away
I hear a whisper in the trees
Where I am you and you are me
You need to find a way back here
Remember what I said:
The space that is in between
You have to fight it
You have to fight it
And now, the trees are growing still
And the flowers have fallen asleep
There's a darkness beyond the hill
And I pray for your soul, your soul to keep
You need to find a way back here
Remember what I said:
The space that is in between
You have to fight it
You have to fight it
Where I am you and you are me
You have to fight it
Where I am you and you are me
Where I am you and you are me
We have to fight it
You have to fight it
Credits[]
- Natasha Khan – songwriting, vocals, guitar
- Jon Hopkins – songwriting, production, piano, electronics, mixing
- Leo Abrahams – guitars
- Sarah Jones – drums
References[]
- ↑ Hutchinson, Kate (12 October 2013). "Natasha Khan and Jon Hopkins: a mercurial pairing". The Guardian.