Song Meanings and Facts
“Playing Robots Into Heaven” is the title track and final song on the playlist of James Blake’s sixth-studio album, and it’s also the only instrumental found on the project. Blake both wrote and produced this...
According to James Blake, he wrote “If You Can Hear Me” for a particular scene in a movie in which a character is communicating with his father, who happens to be in outer space. So...
James Blake has explained that the editor in this case (“Fire the Editor”) would be one’s self, thus making this song akin to a soliloquy. And the message behind the track is that we should not go...
This James Blake song (“Night Sky”) starts off the vocalist noting that he “had told” the addressee “something to say”. Based on the chorus, that may be “to fly into the night sky”. And presumably that...
The message behind James Blake’s “I Want You To Know” is really straightforward, which is the vocalist ‘wanting you to know that you are really special’. And to some extent, it may be presumed that...
The vocals of this track (“Big Hammer”) are delivered in West Indian patois and are reminiscent of the soundclash style made famous by the likes of Jamaican dancehall musicians. The goal of such songs is...
The lyrics of “He’s Been Wonderful” were in part sampled from an old gospel track. Within that context, of course the titular “He” would be a reference to the Most High. As such, one of the...
There are only three expressions made throughout this song, which are “fall back”, “can’t be sad” and “might not come back from that”. In an attempt to connect all of them, we can theorize...
James Blake’s “Tell Me” possesses a certain degree of ambiguity. But the lyrics (of the chorus) read as if this may be a situation where James is addressing his significant other. Or what he appears to...
What it is that’s “loading”, i.e. in the process of manifesting, are the vocalist’s “wings”. All lyrics considered, said “wings” would likely be symbolic of something like James being imbued with a free-partying spirit. But as...
