Los Angeles-born, New York City-based artist Scarlet Rae announces her new EP, No Heavy Goodbyes, out 19 September via Bayonet Records.
Alongside the announcement, Scarlet Rae shares new single ‘The Reason I Could Sleep Forever’ – a vulnerable track torn between giving up and finding the strength to carry on.
“This song comes from the weird quiet place where you’re not exactly okay, but not giving up either. It’s about being emotionally and physically depleted, questioning everything, and realizing how much we really are our own worst enemy. The first verse walks you through sorta a spiritual confusion I was experiencing around the idea of the afterlife. I’d light candles and stare directly into them, desperately trying to get some sort of connection through the flame, then instantly switch into like an atheist mindset, feeling so confused on what’s real or not.
Scarlet Rae
There’s definitely a directness in this song, but it’s not necessarily a surrender. I understand the temptation to disappear, but I would never do that to the people I love. The song lives in that sorta limbo.
I want to be honest about understanding the temptation to disappear, without romanticizing it.”
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