
Where to start with FKA twigs, from EP1 to EUSEXUA Afterglow
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'Pendulum' finds FKA twigs caught between desire and distance, singing of a love that cannot sustain itself. She positions herself as the devoted one, the "sweet, little love maker" trying to bridge a gap that only widens. The other person wants her in fragments, in "other spaces", never fully present. Twigs articulates the particular loneliness of that arrangement: "So lonely trying to be yours / When you're looking for so much more." The song moves through the emotional arithmetic of unequal attachment. She is older, more broken; he is younger, restless. Words fail where presence might have worked. What emerges is not anger but a kind of exhausted clarity, the recognition that some causes are forsaken before they begin. The repetition of that central refrain becomes both plea and acceptance, a pendulum swinging between hope and the knowledge that it will never settle.
"Pendulum" is a track by FKA twigs, from the album LP1, released 5th August 2014. The track is 4:59 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 19 articles about FKA twigs.
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