Typically, I try to share music that has some sort of point of motivation or message that could relate to this crazy journey of self-reflection and improvement, but really music is just a part of my entire being. I have a playlist called “heart songs” and it’s a collection of music that just touches you — that feeling when a song comes on and you just put your hand on your chest because it just finds its way inside of you!
So, today I am sharing a new heart song. I was on Instagram this week and a clip from American’s Got Talent came on my reels of a performance by Summer Rios singing “Something in the Orange” by Zach Bryan. I had never heard the song, but when she started singing, that feeling came over me, and it’s pretty much all I have been listening to this week!
That is the clip — not the full song, which I wish she would’ve done live because it is even better than the recorded version, but the full song is below.
The song is really about someone you love leaving your life and that space where you don’t know what is happening; confusion and a mixed sense of hope and sadness. I think a lot of us have been there and can relate to love purgatory, and the imagery and way in which this is produced, sung, and emoted just sounds so real.
Full Lyrics
It’ll be fine by dusk light, I’m tellin’ you, baby
These things eat at your bones and drive your young mind crazy
But when you place your head between my collar and jaw
I don’t know much, but there’s no weight at all
And I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t
‘Cause if I say I miss you, I know that you won’t
But I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun
Somethin’ in the orange tells me we’re not done
To you, I’m just a man; to me, you’re all I am
Where the hell am I supposed to go?
I poisoned myself again, somethin’ in the orange
Tells me you’re never comin’ home
If you leave today, I’ll just stare at the way
The orange touches all things around
The grass trees and dew, how I just hate you
Please turn those headlights around
I need to hear you say you’ve been waitin’ all night
There’s orange dancin’ in your eyes from bulb light
Your voice only trembles when you try to speak
Take me back to us dancin’, this wood used to creak
To you, I’m just a man; to me, you’re all I am
Where the hell am I supposed to go?
I poisoned myself again, somethin’ in the orange
Tells me you’re never comin’ home
If you leave today, I’ll just stare at the way
The orange touches all things around
The grass trees and dew, how I just hate you
Please turn those headlights around
To you, I’m just a man; to me, you’re all I am
Where the hell am I supposed to go?
I poisoned myself again, somethin’ in the orange
Tells me you’re never comin’ home
If you leave today, I’ll just stare at the way
The orange touches all things around
The grass, trees, and dew, how I just hate you
Please turn those headlights around
Please turn those headlights around
