I started off writing some very simple lyrics about my little sister. We were arguing about some minor little lie she told and in the middle of a mess of tears she looked at me and said “I want you to be the one person that no matter what I do, I don’t have to apologize to.”
It was so moving to me. We all need that person. Someone who will accept and love us no matter what. Someone who won’t try to teach us or punish us.
Then I sat down with a friend and started to explore the simple lyrics, to try to build an imaginary world of the song as rich as my little sisters imaginary world.
That is where the song connected to the painting in Fred Hechingers video. I have loved that painting since I was nine years old (my sisters age) because Therese, the girl in the painting always looked very free to me. She seemed totally unaware that she was being watched, completely alive in her own imaginary world, completely comfortable in her body… Sometimes all you want is someone to meet you in that place. To be with you when you are completely yourself.
Very few people can do that… Especially as you get older its hard to find someone who will accept you completely and those moments where you think you have found that person and then realize you were wrong. Those are some of the scariest most heartbreaking. That is what Blue Hippo is about to me. Trying to let someone into the deepest part of your heart and hope when they get there…they won’t try to change you, they will just love you.
