SINGLE REVIEW: LIZZY KING “FLOATING”
“The shower held me sinking like a rock to the bottom. I can’t go on smiling, can’t go on, can’t go.”
Laying out chords on the piano, the sound was mellow and heavy. Pedal change and wood cracking in the background, Lizzy King’s voice is poised, floating in the middle alone. Like water, sadness subtly drowns you in.
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A slender ray of sunshine shines through the thick cloud, strings emerged out of nowhere, gently lifted up her voice as the moment of realization cracked through sadness. “Like all good realizations, this one happened in the shower: life is painful whether I choose to show up or fade away. Which pain will I choose?” said Lizzy King.
“Sinking down” or “floating up;” the constant push and pull alternates in Floating” as the song develops. The temporary release couldn’t stop the sadness from coming back. Clouds again blocked the sky. The decision to stay comes with pains and struggles.
“I warned her I’m on the edge, she didn’t mean to push me. Now I’m sinking down...”
“I made you late to go to work. I cried under your covers. And I pushed you out of your own bed (I didn’t want to be a burden). How could you see me like this?” Lizzy King “Floating”
“Floating” is fragile and delicate. Lizzy King did an amazing thing by sharing a part of her that was broken and vulnerable through art.
Like the new skin exposed in the air as the old skin painfully shredding, underneath its soft appearance lies the strength to overcome what life has to offer. Confronting the fears and surviving difficult moments when you really believed you weren’t going to make it, even though it may feel like sinking down, you’re floating up from the past.