Sarah Krimson draws on painful memories to craft a touching song driven by metaphors of an emotional war.
Sarah Krimson – Bleeding Heart
Krimson conducts the tune as a mother figure raising some battered down underdog from their lowly disempowered state. Her voice may sound somewhat girlie and sweet, but her candid Galadriel-like uttering of the verses, combined with the eerie echo effects, does lend her performance a more imposing presence.
The melancholic minor key sound is accompanied by lyrics that spare no use of dramatic metaphors and heavy imagery. References to blowing gunpowder, picking a rose “from the gun’s mouth” and standing one’s ground in the battlefield make a pretty on-the-nose 1800s-infused depiction of an internal battlefield. “Memories as sweet as rum (…) I guess love was not enough”, she sings bitterly. Some old feelings never cease to haunt…
The piano-led electro-folk instrumentation is very stripped down and accentuates the understated introspective atmosphere. That is until the chorus hits and she reaches out to this worn-down someone with a more passionate tone. “Tell me, kid, what’s underneath your skin? (…) What’s hurting so bad that makes you wanna disconnect?”, she enquires as if extending her hand and pulling them up from rock bottom.
Hailing from Italy, Sarah Krimson moved to London in 2015 to focus on her musical career. Her 2021 single Alice was remixed by a number of DJs from around the world, which helped it reach number 50 in Africa DJ Charts. She wrote “Bleeding Heart” as an extended metaphor for her painful childhood memories, which she repressed for a long time before addressing the old scars with her psychiatrist.
“Describing an internal battlefield, the song explores painful memories that still linger, illustrated by a haunting electro-folk soundscape”
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