Heavy Seas of Love Lyrics

[Verse 1: Brian Eno]
When your soul isn’t right and it’s raw to the night
It’s in your hands
When the traces of dark come to fade in the light
You’re in safe hands

[Chorus: Damon Albarn]
Heavy seas of love, radiance is in you
As above, so below on the heavy seas of love
Heavy seas of love, we come together in you
Counting out the new moons on the heavy seas of love

[Verse 2: Brian Eno]
When the world is too tall, you can jump, you won’t fall
You’re in safe hands
What the day will now give, how those seeds will now live
It’s in your hands

[Chorus: Damon Albarn]
Heavy seeds of love, radiance is in you
As above, so below on the heavy seas of love
Heavy seas of love, we come together in you
Counting out the new moons on the heavy seas of love
Heavy seeds of love, radiance is in you
As above, so below on the heavy seas of love
Heavy seas of love, radiance is in you
Counting out the new moons on the heavy seas of love

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This song is a duet between Damon Albarn and Brian Eno. Brian Eno is better known as a producer than a singer. It was Everyday Robots producer, Richard Russell, who suggested that he sung on this track. Albarn told The Sun: “He said, ‘No one asks Brian to sing, everyone asks him to produce.’ And Brian is such a fan of singing – he has a vocal group who meet every Tuesday. He has such a clear, crisp voice and mine is such a different tone, so it was interesting to put the two together.”

Albarn told Rolling Stone that Brian Eno is a neighbor of his. “I used to go to a health club that he goes to as well, but he always did much more interesting things than I did,” he added.“I’d be on a mind-numbing running machine, and he took water aerobics classes. He was very Eno about it.”

The song features The Leytonstone City Mission Choir, who also contributed to “Mr. Tembo.” Albarn felt that the choir held a nostalgic importance to him and asked the Church if he could record with the collective. He told Uncut magazine: “They’re from the City Mission on Colworth Road. It was the Pentecostal church literally at the end of my road, and it was a very bright childhood memory, standing outside, listening to the music coming out of there. I’m sure somehow it’s connected to songs like ”Tender“, 30 or 40 years later.”

The artwork for the song’s single release features the Palacio Salvo building, which is located in the Uruguay capital of Montevideo. Albarn explained during a Reddit AMA: “I found my whole stay in Uruguay quite affecting – the view from my hotel was completely dominated by the Palacio Salvo. I spent a lot of time looking at it.

The music video was directed by Damon Albarn and edited by Matt Cronin.

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