Eden Rain – 'Wake Up, You’re Stuck'

Leeds singer songwriter Eden Rain shares disarming debut single ‘Wake Up, You’re Stuck’.

Carried by delicate piano lines and a slow-building chorus, Eden’s soulful vocals give way to her wistfully poetic lyricism. Wrapping emotive concepts into clever, quick witted humour, she very quickly proves herself an eloquent genius - “Couldn’t lie through my teeth, so I took them all out. Got so much more room for my foot in my mouth.” Talking about ‘Wake Up, You’re Stuck’, Eden says: “For me, this song is the feeling of being eaten alive from the inside out. I wrote it after waking up from a nightmare when I had fallen asleep with Planet Earth on in the background. To me the song feels like a fight or flight situation: do I stay being eaten alive or attempt to save myself from all the things I’m running from?”

Tender and intimate, ‘Wake Up, You’re Stuck’ not only sets Eden Rain apart as a marvellous lyricist, it introduces her unique perspective on the world, or as she calls it her “gutter vision”: “My parents once took my family on holiday in a campervan across Scandinavia. We drove over this amazing mountain pass and they all got out of the car to take a look at the view. They were staring out, in awe of the mountain landscape saying, ‘This is so amazing’, and I was like, ‘Yeah – look at all the cigarette butts on the floor!’” Eden laughs. “That’s when my mum told me I had ‘gutter vision’. I was more interested in the people who went to the mountains to smoke. I look at the world from the gutter upwards.”

Words by Laura Freyaldenhoven

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