Valentine (Extended) by Flower Face

"Valentine" - this is definitely the most miserable song on this record. When I was listening back to the rough mixes after we finished in the studio, I skipped it every time. It’s the one where I sort of rip my heart out of my chest and present it to the world on a plate, weak and bleeding and bare. It’s still hard for me to listen to, because it puts me back in a place that I worked so hard to get out of. It’s humiliating in the way that only love and heartbreak can be. The other songs on this record all carry a certain amount of power and defiance, but this one is just so weepy. It breaks the feeling down to its core: I love you so deeply, you hurt me so bad, I’m all out of poetry, you made me so sad. At a certain point you can only wrap so many beautiful words around a broken heart to make it more palatable: beneath that, there’s something so pathetic and desperate that needs to be let out.

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