Jade Bird soars with her percussion-led new song “Dreams.” Wrapping her signature warble around the melody, she offers a somber reflection of inner brokenness that sends ripples throughout one’s entire life. “I always believed in Heaven / It’s clear to see that you’re an angel, but / Looking pretty won’t fix me, not tonight,” she heaves, her words falling like glass on the piano keys.
The chorus rings like an alarm, a call to action, as she wades through emotional turmoil and the fear that her entire life could collapse around her. “Is this what dreams are made of?” she ponders, before adding, “Driving on a beautiful day, while you’re falling apart…” She clutches her heart in her hands, a fragile, delicately spun piece of glass that could shatter at any given moment.
Despite its shiny exterior, “Dreams” is actually a “very dark song. I saw a billboard driving to the studio after a bit of a nasty breakdown. I’d gone to sleep at five am the night before and read ‘this is what dreams are made of,'” she says in press materials. “Combined with the LA sun, I felt a deep irony. It’s about feeling too broken to be with the person you love. Pushing them away because of generational habits and (I don’t like the word) trauma.”
Listen to “Dreams” below.
Photo via song cover art
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