#the balloon

[bizarreauhavre]

The balloon by Francisco De Goya.

[mosraev]

[You] can't grow if you don't live. Do live. - The Balloon (Mosræv, 2023)

On the time of recording this was my newest song. It is a sort of open letter to who I was before coming out as nonbinary transmasculine so the themes are very much centered introspection, retrospection and acceptance.

Remember to be kind to the person you once were- they'd gotten you where you are now. And even if you are not a place you are satisfied with I hope you stay in there, I believe in you <3

Recorded 23/08/26 - Pret-T - Lyrics + bonus material under the line

Stay creative, my fellow foxes 🦊💚

The same hat 9 years apart. Pre-coming out and now getting to live more like myself every day <3

Lyrics:

A letter to my past self:

Stop try to fit in a box that never seemed to fit you

'because it'll never make you feel enough.

A letter to my past self:

I know you hate floating on air.

Not finding your footing anywhere,

yet you're also afraid to fall.

It's all okay to not fit in.

I promise you, there'll be a better tomorrow

if you let the balloon go.

A letter to my past self:

Stop calculation your worth with how much you pass for a girl

when we both know you ain't one.

You can't open up before you know yourself.

People will like you, but they can tell

something about you seems so distant,

and who loves a shadow?

It's all okay to not fit in.

I promise you, there'll be a better tomorrow

if you let the balloon go.

I think that I know the answer to your question why,

but you have to take a leap of faith

and let the balloon go.

Let it go.

Let it go.

You have to take a leap of faith

and let the balloon go.

You can't open up before you know yourself.

Can't love if you don't know yourself.

Can't trust if you don't know yourself.

Can't love if you don't know yourself.

Can't show your heart if you don't know yourself.

Can't love if you don't know yourself.

Can't grow if you don't live.

Do live.

It's all okay to not fit in.

I promise you, there'll be a better tomorrow

if you let the balloon go.

I think that I know the answer to your question why,

but you have to take a leap of faith

and let the balloon go.

Let the balloon go (let it go).

Let the balloon go (let it go).

If you let the balloon go.

[smartestsister]

Marvel’s Daredevil Confessions #13:

I thought the balloon was such a sweet gesture ... Karen really does care a lot about Matt 

[rachelmygod]

The balloon (Yuzo Kawashima, 1956)

[brontios-helm]

Red Dead Redemption 2: Icarus And Friends

[shihlun]

Yuzo Kawashima

- The Balloon

1956

[oldfilmsflicker]

February 2020 in Films | the diary of a film history fanatic