When All You Can Manage Is A Sigh

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Standalone single following last year's debut Georgia Gets By EP, Fish Bird Baby Boy.
From Georgia:
I wrote this song for a friend a few years ago while they were navigating a divorce. There are those moments where thinking can’t balance out the feelings. You can rationalise all you want but you are still there, holding that enormous heavy sensation that no words can describe. There, on the other side of falling in love, looking around at empty space and wondering whether you can bear to try it all again. This song is a parting gift of some sorts; something to fill the emptiness for a couple of minutes. As Imogen Heap says “there is beauty in the breakdown”.

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Like your shadow in the dark
Disappears from your side
Lonely as before the start, and longer grows the night
When all you can manage is a sigh,
and wonder if it's worth the high,
and hope they know you tried

Lying in an empty bath
holding on to the past
Long gone but still it lasts, the reflection that it casts,
When all you can manage is a sigh and wonder if it's worth the high
and hope they know you tried

If you can be grateful, the time passes slowly
To feel it more wholly
To hold it while it dies

Even if all you can manage is a sigh,
and wonder if it's worth the high,
and hope they know you tried

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released February 13, 2024
Written by Georgia Nott
Produced by James Goldsmith and Georgia Nott

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Georgia Gets By Auckland, New Zealand

Known for her work in BROODS, Georgia Nott debuts her new solo project, Georgia Gets By, with track "Easier To Run", out now on Luminelle Recordings. “After years working collaboratively as BROODS, I wanted to start a project that could be wholly about my experiences,” Georgia Nott. ... more

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