heavy

Lydia Laird names exhaustion in the most basic physical terms in "heavy" — "I've been tryin' to find the strength to simply breathe, I've been tryin' to find the place where I should be, when the weight of the world's on your shoulders, how do you shoulder it?" Breathing itself is described as an effort.

"When you're desperate to find some hope, where do you go? When you're certain that you're alone, where is home?" keeps asking rather than answering, and "I've been trying to reach the other side, is there an end, 'cause I can't see one tonight, but I can't just give in" holds genuine doubt about the outcome alongside a refusal to stop.

"There's a whisper inside of me... I can't make out, there's a promise that wants to be spoken out loud" closes the song on something faint and not yet fully understood, choosing to keep listening rather than claiming to have already heard it clearly.