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Rest by ANOHNI

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ANOHNI

Rest

Release date: 6th July 2023

From My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
Track 7
5:45
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About This Track

‘Rest’ by ANOHNI is an Alternative track from the album ‘My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross’, released in 2023. The lyrics are devotional and patient, casting rest as something precious and almost sacramental, repeatedly placing it alongside images of homecoming. There is a sense of longing held in bright, domestic pictures, from wheat and soft light to the insistence that someone will eventually come home. At one point the singer asks for rest, but frames it as a way to wait through desire, ending on the same hopeful pull, ‘I wait for you to come home’.

"Rest" is a track by ANOHNI, from the album My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross, released 6th July 2023. The track is 5:45 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about ANOHNI.

About the Artist

ANOHNI

ANOHNI

Lyrics

Rest

Rest like the soul of a diamond
Rest like a woman in a field of wheat
Rest and she'll come home to you
She'll come home to you

Rest like the soft light of Mercury
Rest like your hunger is the victory
It's a longing laughing day
It's a longing laughing day

I wait for you to come home
Playing deep within your eyes
Sleeping deep, it feels so real, feels so real

Now all my life I wait for you
I wait for you to come on home
For to go to sleep
Sleep deep inside your eyes

Like a fire of tenderness
Like the West waits for the North
Like my guilt waits for reprieve
Like my guilt waits for reprieve

Rest like a stone waits for the sun
Waiting at the bottom of the ocean
Like a jewel waits for the sand
Like a jewel waits for the sand

Music for the children
We can't teach you how to crawl
Demon dancing's all I know
Demon dancing's all I know
(Demon dancing's all I know)

Rest your soul, rest your soul
Rest your soul, rest your soul

Rest like the enemy of all that breathes
Rest like the enemy of all that sees
In the poison ocean blue
She'll come home to you

She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home

She'll come, come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home
She'll come home

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Track details

From My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross

5:452023
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Album
My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
ANOHNI
7th July 2023
Track number
7
Release year
2023
  1. 1It Must Change
    4:55
  2. 2Go Ahead
    1:31
  3. 3Sliver of Ice
    3:42
  4. 4Can’t
    4:40

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  4. It Must ChangeMy Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
    4:55
  5. It’s My FaultMy Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
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  6. ScapegoatMy Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
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  7. Sliver of IceMy Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
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  8. There Wasn’t EnoughMy Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
    4:55
  9. Why Am I Alive Now?My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
    6:00
  10. You Be FreeMy Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross
    2:17

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  • 5Scapegoat
    5:23
  • 6It’s My Fault
    2:16
  • 7Rest
    5:45
  • 8There Wasn’t Enough
    4:55
  • 9Why Am I Alive Now?
    6:00
  • 10You Be Free
    2:17

    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    ANOHNI, Jimmy Hogarth
    Producer
    Jimmy Hogarth
    Mastering Engineer
    Greg Calbi
    Mixing Engineer
    Jimmy Hogarth
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