Tuesday 23rd February 2010

LONELY GALAXY – “HAVE A HEART”

At first I thought a lonely galaxy an impossibility – how can you be alone amongst all this stuff? There’s shit everywhere. Listening to “Have A Heart” though, it’s clear that this Lonely Galaxy is not so much a description as a desperate wish for solitude, to just be left-the-fuck-alone. And for good reason it seems, because someone has resoundingly had their heart snapped in two.

There’s a ton weight of heartbreak coursing through these languorous 7 minutes, heartbreak that stretches to the ends of space but still can’t escape itself, or, more importantly, the one – the one! – that did the breaking. A requiem written in extended coda, “Have A Heart” stretches from the resigned dissolution of a relationship to finding redemption in something newer, brighter, coming up over that hill, and coming from inside too – I’m alright, at least I have a heart!.

And in making that declaration as if it’s a saving grace appears another impossibility – how can hope be found in the one thing that hurt you? I guess only love can break your heart. I guess that’s true romance. That’s something worth holding on to.

Lonely Galaxy – “Have A Heart”

(Photo: Sam Coldy)