"Lilo" by The Japanese House is very close to my heart. I heard this song during one of the memorable months of my life, and although I felt happy, I felt my heart break while listening to the song. I tie particular songs to particular events in my life. That month was filled with so many ups and downs. Whenever I listen to this song I reminisce on the events that spanned during that time of my life. I look back and smile, knowing that I will never experience them again, but that the memories stay with me. Attached to this song are the endless memories, experiences, and emotions I felt during that era of my life.
"Do you know when you love something so much that you can feel that love in the center of your chest? That's what I feel with this song, but after seeing the music video, it's on another celestial level. It has made a hole in my soul that pierced me through the most beautiful form. Your music means so much and I can not believe that none of my friends knows you and I do not have anyone to talk to about you." - Abril Giosa
Amber Bain wrote this song over the course of a relationship. She said "One of my best friends five years ago called me up when I was in a state of total heartbreak and said: ‘I’ve met somebody and you’re going to fall completely in love with them’. Quite quickly this became entirely true. Lilo is a song about that relationship, how she was everything I needed at that time and how, to me, her every movement - paired with her approach to life - seemed as serene as the image of a lilo floating across a swimming pool. I feel very close to this song as I began writing it just before this relationship came to an end and finished it just after it had. Now, it is a reminder to me that I am good at falling in love and I can survive falling out of it. I’m good at falling. “You were floating like a Lilo, with your eyes closed, going where the tide goes. Caught in flux: you drifted till you hit the sides.”
"Lilo" holds so many emotions that I can't listen to the song without feeling exactly how I felt the first time I heard it.
"Utterly beautiful. This demonstrates falling out of love so adequately - the silent pain, the not wanting to, the lack of control." - Jade Wood
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