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Watching Over You

from Light Shadow Boom Boom; by Queen Bonobo

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Song Origin: The autumn I decided to make the album, my friend Maryanne and I started a weekly songwriters challenge of trading off picking a title and writing a song around that theme. The first title she picked was, ‘Like a God’ and I was really stumped for a while, thinking I could go down an ancient greek route, but that I really didn’t have a clue on an interesting angle. After a couple days of thinking, I chose to have the song be from the perspective of a “god like” or “higher being” sitting on a rooftop watching over the happenings of society below them. This,
then lead me digging up a wee scrap of paper that I’d written at home in Idaho the past summer. That summer, my dad was struggling with a deep depression and I found my empathetic self soaking up his problems, taking them on as my own, and trying to fix him. Being with him in
that time brought out a lot of sadness, anger, and frustration in me, feeling a sense of hopelessness in not being able to control or even change the state of his mental and physical health. There was a point in the madness that unveiled things for me, it helped me see that I am not responsible for his or anyone’s happiness but my own. I’m definitely not perfect (no angel)
and a big lesson was remembering that we are the only ones who can change ourselves (Derry, NI, U.K., 2017).

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Like a God/Watching Over You

When you found me on the rooftop, like a god
Mighty humble creature staring wide eyed, I reached out my hand

You’re on your own and it’s pointless to try and change you
You’ll do what you want till someone knocks you senseless or knocks some sense into you

I’m no angel but I can’t help watching over you

Sitting on the rooftop sipping wine, waiting for the sun to arrive

Surrender to the unknown no science will cure our will to kill ourselves, or the earth below our feet

Close your eyes and surrender to all you can’t see

I’m no angel but I can’t help watching over you

Cheers to everyone and cheers to no one all we’ve got is this moment

Care bout everyone don’t care what no one thinks like a god

You ask, “how can you sit above it all? Watching as the world crumbles.”

I’m just sitting here on my rooftop

Smiling at the sun

credits

from Light Shadow Boom Boom;, released May 24, 2019
Maya Goldblum - lyrics, vocals, guitar, field recording, & production
Daryl Coyle - co-production, backing vocals, & field recording
James Anderson - percussion

Niall Doran - engineer
Ben McAuley - mixed
Stephen Quinn - mastered

Artwork - Maya Goldblum

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Queen Bonobo New Orleans, Louisiana

Queen bonobo is a genre-bending, creative brain child of Idaho native, Maya Goldblum. Drawing on themes from her personal life and sponging up the world around her she creates a tapestry of introspective, transformative, folk/jazz. Maya Goldblum crafts visceral soundscapes that engulf her listeners and her easily relatable lyrics provoke emotion like none other. ... more

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