Portions for Foxes: Charly Bliss

"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See the introduction for more.

This week I have a poppy, happy-sounding song that lists all sorts of normal everyday things:

Staring at cars, selling your art
Feeling so sure you're waking up tomorrow
A better son or a daughter
Drunk walking home
Making the choice to be completely alone

And then matter-of-factly stating that they're obviously going to go away:

It's gonna break my heart to see it blown to bits

This is Blown to Bits by Charly Bliss. It never says why things will be blown to bits, or even how - the premise of the song is that they will, all of them, real soon now.

Does it make it eerier when I point out this is a 2019 song?

It's probably a quarter-life crisis song, about "what happens next in my life?" But it doesn't have to be. It's stronger if you don't think of it that way. Because every song is what it can mean to you, right now, when you hear it.

And this is a big one, a song called Blown to Bits. It can take all that weight, if you want it to.

And it broke all of our hearts to see it blown to bits.