Song Discussion: Your Cloud

For Procrastination Reasons I've decided to start a Daily (maybe) Song Discussion where I draw a song at random.

Today's pick is You Cloud

Feel free to share your thoughts on or experiences with the song. Favourite Lyric? Favourite Live Performance?

Here's what I think of Your Cloud: (Very rambly, sorry)

This is actually a song I don't think about much until it comes up on shuffle and then I'm reminded of its beauty. It has an absolutely gorgeous piano melody that strangely enough reminds me of Father Lucifer. The part where she sings "is there a horizontal line..." is transcendent to me. I feel like this song is kinda an underdog on Scarlet's Walk at least I don't see it mentioned much. It's a quiet moment that on an already kind of quite album.

Favourite Live Performance: https://youtu.be/8mpQDjl-5f4?si=lq76KloByjFMj0GY This live performance stands out to me as being better than the study version. I understand what she was trying to do with the layered vocals on the album, but I prefer them as they are here. It is more focused and creates more tension at the same time. I also really love the intro & how the song slowly builds from the piano riff.

My favourite line has to be "Indigo is his own, blue always knew that". To me it seems to be in conversation with "blue isn't red" from Strange earlier on the album.

To me this song speaks to family conflicts: how you can be sort of deeply connected to your family & the people you grew up with and despite that still wanting your own identity (indigo is his own).

Being on SW I think it's safe to assume that there is also a political dimension to this. I am not American but my own country has been having an interesting moment for a while now and it's led me to feel deeply frustrated with and also ashamed of many people of my country but at the same time I still feel a strange sense of kinship with at least most of them.