Heard this song playing over the credits for the show Shrinking and it mesmerized me. Alice Bowman is a Swedish singer who first recorded this song in her bedroom and you can hear her ethereal state as she gives voice to a longing that she feels so deeply even if she doesn’t fully understand it:
I want you more than I need you
I need you bad
Are you coming back?
Are you coming back?
There is a starkness as if she’s standing out against the endless ice and snow of Scandinavia, a lone figure against an endless horizon. The song captures the pain of desire and our inability to escape it, like a wave pulling us through its undertow, but no, for this is so gentle. It is as if she lay down on a cloud and floated towards earth.
#Songoftheday #spreadinghappiness #alicebowman #waiting #longing
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_KQdMgLW-K0?si=3pTRWXvHp-xUDe1w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2KcQh6QnfN40xDTatsybsG?si=354b978f7c754a99