The 1975’s “She Lays Down” Lyrics Meaning
The lyrics of “She Lays Down” is about Matt Healy’s mom, a lady by the name of Denise Welch. More specifically, by her own account she suffered from a harrowing case of post-natal depression after giving birth to Matt and 1989. And upon revealing this to her son, he was so affected by the story that decided to drop a song about it.
And actually he gets quite personal, even letting it be known that she took drugs during that period of time. Moreover, it can be deemed overall that he was negatively affected emotionally by the period in their lives also. Indeed based on his description of the background of this song, he implies that the title basically points to the idea of his mom “trying to love” him when he was a baby. And as such, the overall inference is that she failed at doing so, even though in the present they are indeed close.
Facts about “She Lays Down”
In addition to Healy, the other writers of “She Lays Down” are his The 1975 bandmates R. MacDonald, G. Daniel and A. Hann.
Healy and Daniel also produced the song alongside record producer Mike Crossey.
Interscope Records and Dirty Hit released this track on 26 February 2016. It is part of The 1975’s 2016 studio album.
Healy’s mum, Denise Welch, is actually a popular British television personality. And whereas the birth of Matt may have affected her back in the day, as aforementioned they later grew quite close regardless.
