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10 months ago

The perfect soundtrack to accompany the fragments of a broken heart | Spotify & YouTube playlist: ffm.to/rjyp48o Tracklist: 0:10 Paper Towns & Rosemary & Garlic - Is It Really Over Walking away is never easy. ‘Is It Really Over?’, a collaboration between ‘Paper Towns’ and ‘Rosemary & Garlic’, puts us in the room with a couple who decide to go separate ways. Neither ex-lover wants to be the first to leave the room as doing so will make the break up final and irreversible. Hanging on to glimpses of hope and past memories, ultimately, they know that their love has run its course. 3:47 Dave Thomas Junior - The Hope Even when you know the outcome of something playing out and still you yearn for another ending - It’s the hope that kills you. The dream-like composition fits with the idea of the mind wondering ‘what if?’ 7:55 Jess Josie Lee, Heath Lancaster - Undertones This song is about a long distance relationship not working out. 11:28 Hayden Everett - Redwoods I wrote Redwoods the day of a really tough breakup. The song captures the tension of knowing I had to end it, while swallowing the pain of losing my best friend in her in the process. This is certainly the most raw song I've ever written, says Hayden. 15:50 Atli - Loved To Be Loved By You Loved To Be Loved By You is a ballad about lost love. The man longs for his lost love, reflecting on their time together and feeling broken without her. He wants her affection again, despite knowing it may be too late. 18:48 Garrett Kato - Slow Motion It’s essentially a grieving feeling….You can’t get past heartbreak overnight, and time sort of stands still like a car accident in slo-mo. You’re living in the past, which is what grief really is. 21:45 Swimmingly - Small Small Town This song is about realising you've not just been left, you've been left behind. When my friends left town and I didn't, I saw first hand how their parents felt. Coinciding with my own girlfriend leaving, it felt like we were all breaking together. 24:07 Oliver Hazard - Ballerina This song, like so many, is simply about the loss of a relationship - but it’s more of an ode, stating it’s okay, it’s for the best, but it will never lose its value. The beginning only has a guitar riff. The overall creation of the song is a sum of the band's parts, each member adding their own individual idea and experience to the track. 27:39 Wilfred - cigarette This song is about feeling used and broken by a person you once cared for. The lyrics hit on the rawness of what it feels like to be betrayed, having nothing left to give, until you finally realize that because of what you went through, you’re now able to let go and grow, finally becoming free of a toxic relationship that was holding you back. 32:18 Mo Kenney - With You This song is about my own messy, true-to-life experience with loss, reflecting on dashed dreams, miscommunications, and moments of quiet connection. I wasn’t feeling depressed about my heartbreak, more-so optimistic. 34:37 Of Sea and Stone - Annalise This song is about a couple realizing their problems stem from their own actions. One put too much on their partner. The other made promises they were never really going to keep. They're in love, but realizing that love is more than just a feeling. 37:52 Dom Malin - Yesterday's Love For anyone who has found themselves in the need of closure after a relationship’s light has faded. I was in a dreamlike state running through the timeline of an ended relationship wondering if we could still be. 41:03 Portair - I Didn't Love You It is a song that was written in a dream I once had. In the dream a person I loved, believed that I never did and that was really hard to accept. 44:18 Carter Hulsey - I Get That Now This song is about the ending of a relationship and how time gives you more distance and then perspective. 46:53 Arvid Lizell - Alone Now This song is about trying to accept being left by someone you love. Repeating to yourself that you're strong and that you can move on. But then every once in a while, when the thought hits you, it hits you hard, and you can't deny that you miss her. 51:25 DIVIANNE - Come Back Home This song is about grieving & letting go of somebody you still love. It’s about holding on and letting go. I wrote it in 2019 while reading a book on the underground on my way back home and a line about being cross-legged playing guitar started it. 54:43 Jordan Smith Reynolds - Please This song is about trying to save a frayed relationship, when whatever made it work before just isn't there anymore. 57:45 Lydia Kennie - All Falls Down This song is about the end of a relationship when two people realize there is nothing else they can do to save it. 1:00:45 Austin Mackay - Without You This song is about leaving someone so close to you behind in order to grow, explore and experience new things in life. 1:05:15 Luke Kelly - Photos This song is about moving on but keeping a hold of all the happy and important memories. 1:09:20 Sonny Casey - A Thousand Setting Suns It’s the bittersweet story of letting go of a loved one who’s hurt you and being at peace with no longer having them in your life. It’s about being happy for them that they love someone else now, with a hint of longing for all of those could-have-beens. 1:13:24 Will Killen - High Hopes This song began on the car journey home from a pretty devastating conversation. 1:17:34 Courtney Preis - Loose Strings This song is about the loose ends we'll always carry with certain people throughout our life. Even if the relationship ended or the person has passed; certain places will always feel like Loose Strings no matter how much time passes. 1:20:50 Mantell & Stella Dunai - Dear Mia This song is about a retrospective look into a fragmented relationship and the piecing together of the broken pieces. Exploring the regrets and self-reflection one has when they question where and how everything went wrong. 1:25:31 Beraud & For Atlas - Selfish if I Stay This song is about when two people love each other but their incompatibility makes it hard to make the relationship work and as much as they'd love to selfishly stay together, they know they're holding each other back.

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