What happens when a love walks out of your life, someone that used to consume you to a mere face in the crowd once again? Falling focuses on the questioning and hurt that occurs when a love is lost. Trying to find yourself on your own again. Realizing that they might be fine on their own and wondering what it is you did wrong. Falling may feel like flying for a few moments, but what happens when you hit the ground?
The piano and vocals of this track are unmatched and will leave you with tears in your eyes as the final note hits. The melancholy beauty of this track is what captures your attention, and while the ethereal sound of the piano leaves the soul soaring, the lyrics tear your heart out and hold it up for you to see. The self deprecation and blame that revolves around a love that has left, the writing and the wallowing. Why did they leave? Was it me? What if the person you are without them isn't someone you don't want to be around? And what happens when they call you up again, but all it does is painfully bring to the surface that you don't have anything to talk about anymore. It leaves you falling. You fell once, for who they were and who they brought out in you. But when all that vanishes you fall once more, into a reality without them. You fall deep into the water and it consumes you. In the music video, much like in the song, the visuals capture your eyes with their beauty, but it shows the pain of sinking in your own melancholy as the water swallows him up.
Falling is showcasing the pain and questioning that occurs when the one person you thought would constantly be there when you need them, decides they are better off without you. And what you did to drive them away. A beautifully, vulnerable, and ethereal song that leaves you in your own state of melancholy as you lay on the ground letting the lyrics soothe your soul.
Bri's take-
First comes panic, then a burning pain, until you finally give in and take a breath, accepting the fall and giving into the depths. In the end, you find peace, but it's not without the lung-clenching pain that feels like it could tear you apart. The feeling of drowning and falling are one and the same. In them, you can’t reach peace without having felt a heartwrenching, lung suffocating pain. It's terrifying to fall, to slip and tumble, eventually finding yourself soaring for a second, and then feeling like you are plummeting to your demise the next. It creeps upon you, and it's always worse when the person you fall for can’t offer you the same affection. It’s the tragedy of unrequited love.
Falling is the song about being at your absolute lowest, when you have transformed into someone you can’t recognize and wouldn’t want to be around, let alone be with. This track is a confession to being so completely in love with someone who has moved on without you and has left you alone with your doubts and insecurities, and you can only sit and wonder what happened to cause the rift between you two, and how you got to where you are as a person. This message is compelled even more through the playing of a few keys at the beginning of the song, until eventually it gets bigger and become a full piano ballad which leaves you speechless and can leave you struggling for air like Harry at the end of the music video.
Track 6 is highly intimate as Harry explores this facet of emotion that he experienced and felt comfortable sharing with us. Falling tells the tale of a love lost and a wandering soul and the inevitability of the fall and how terrifying it can feel to be so helplessly in love with someone and continue to find yourself falling for them even if they have moved on and are doing well without you.
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