Fragile

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Jun. 1, 20223 viewers167K views

Fragile Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Will you let me come closer to you
I know that you're older, but what can I do
I leave in the morning I'll forget that I am surely falling

[Pre-Chorus]
Grew up in a case of fragile glass
But hammer away it's time to crash
And as it shatters let me shatter into you

[Chorus]
The soft candle glow
The music so slow
Your skin on my skin
The room is spinning
Nerve in my bone
I'm shaking oh no
I'm talking though I shouldn't be
I've lost all sensibility
I've never been so fragile

[Verse 2]
It's been a year and forty days
Since you picked me up and swept me away
I wanted to run with you into the midnight sun with you

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[Pre-Chorus]
Now I sit around and rust in rain
Turn into dust as I just wait
For somеone to hold me like you did that night I still rеmember

[Chorus]
The soft candle glow
The music so slow
Your skin on my skin
The room kept spinning
Round I'm alone
New town on my own
I'm missing you I shouldn't be
I've lost all sensibility
I've never been so fragile

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“Fragile” is the 1st track on Laufey’s debut album “Everything I Know About Love”. The song delves into her first infatuation after being sheltered from love, and its sensitivity. The first half of the song narrates her first encountering with a boy that “shattered that case [of glass] around me”. The second half takes place in modern day, where she has distanced herself and moved on. The song include the famous bossa nova pattern, as well as an ensemble of strings slowly crescendoing throughout the song.

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What did Laufey say about "Fragile"?

I grew up very protected and sensitive to love. I often felt like I lived in a case of glass — the first half of “Fragile” is the story of the first time I encountered this boy that shattered that case around me. The second half of the song is set in the present, after I’ve moved from my hometown to LA and I’m remembering that moment. I was very influenced by cinematic scores and bossa nova in this song, it’s the first song on the album and I wanted the strings to slowly crescendo so it sounds like it’s coming from a far away place and traveling towards us.

— Laufey, via Consequence

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