The Heart And The Bone

by Darling Fitch

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The Heart And The Bone combines cold, wind-swept instrumentation and intimately rough vocals in a bittersweet electronic ballad of resilience and survival. Dedicated to transgender people in the United States who are fighting against growing social and legal repression, The Heart And The Bone offers an embrace to anyone who has felt the loneliness and desperation of being an “outcast” and has clung to the beauty of life, against the odds.

Darling Fitch is no stranger to life as an outsider, and The Heart And The Bone is a deeply personal song. As a trans, working class immigrant artist, Fitch speaks from experience of the pain as well as the triumphs of seeking one’s truth. As one verse laments “you’ve never been so alone” the chorus answers: “anyone could be so proud to survive.”

The Heart And The Bone walks the line between sadness and hope, and makes space for both, at a time when it can seem difficult to know how to go on. Many of us are familiar with the feeling. Perhaps we aren’t so alone after all.

Praise for Darling Fitch: “…electric, eccentric, elegant, honest, and pretty much everything.” -IndieRepublik

“powerful… both energised and energising. This is challenging stuff” -David Charles, Edinburgh Guide

“feels like performance art rather than a bog standard pop single… there is an emotional depth here that spans more than song.” - TJPL News

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The shape of our mouths
Living out loud
Passing our secrets around
(Inhale...exhale)

The cut of our skin
What's buried in it
(Little lies...little truths)

Measures and scales
The Devil and all his details

Running from cloud to cloud
Roughing up and falling down
Anyone could be so proud
To survive

The heart and the bone
Melting like stone
You've never been so alone
(Inhale, exhale)

Coming like spring
Oh, what an uncertain thing
(little love... little pain)

Trapped like a rose
Your petals fall around you like rain

Anyone could be so proud
To survive

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released June 9, 2023

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Darling Fitch is a US-born, Berlin-based writer, musician and performance artist.

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