Widow's Peak (song)

"**Widow's Peak**" (originally called as "**Bride in the Fog**") is a song performed by Bat For Lashes. It serves as the eighth track on Natasha's fourth album, The Bride.

## Background

On 19 December 2015, Natasha posted a photo of her recording a "spoken word poem" on Instagram announcing this song's title.

The way she composed the songs on *The Bride* was markedly different to writing her other records. She wrote the song titles first, decided what order they would run on the album and then created the words and music. Most of the titles came to her quickly, but some took a little longer to finish.

> “"Joe’s Dream" was called originally called "Don’t Say Goodbye", "Widows Peak" was "Bride in the Fog". "If I Knew" was there early as well, I just didn’t know what it was called straightaway.”
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On March 10, 2016, she shared the behind-the-scenes photoshoot for the album with a snippet of the track playing in the background. Months later, on June 28, 2016, Natasha shared a fragment of what would probably be the music video for the track on her Instagram account.

## Music and composition

 Within The Bride's story,

> “It’s a moment where she could lose everything, when grief turns you into something you don’t want to be, where it hardens your heart like a Miss Havisham character. That’s the part where she could go to the dark side, but she doesn’t.”
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In a interview, Natasha said the song is about the bride not letting go of the grieving process:

> “The song *Widow’s Peak*, there’s an aspect, there’s part of the album where she gets kind of hunted, almost, by a widow, but the widow is personification of the cynical, hardened heart, someone who can’t let go of the grief and who becomes a misshapen or hardened person, so he does flirt with that.”
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## Lyrics

Come wonder with me

Through a young girl's dream

Don't wake me up too soon

There's a halo on the moon

You hunger, I'll thirst

Pink stars do burst

God of lightning, Goddess of fern

A map to memorise, a lullaby to learn

Come on, darling, take me there

Where red clouds bloom and fill the air

Where my purple heart beats to your jet black snare

Up on Piney Point if you dare

You're my blood, you're my wine

You're my mountain to climb

Say you're mine

You're mine

You're mine

Bride in the fog

And no way out

Can't see my own hands

Can't hear a sound

Where angels conspire and heroes do drown

I am lost in the mire, upside down

Is that my soul on fire whirling by?

Take a walk, man of God

I just want to die

I tell you, my friend

The widow is on my trail

You'll hear her

You will know her

A chill on the skin

A song in the wind

To wonder, to roam

To never know home

To lie under a sky of blood reds and pale blues

To tread ten thousand miles in a dead man's shoes

There's a demon loose, a demon loose

I can't get home

I can't get home

For the road is a snake of mist

In the shadow of a rebel's fist

His jacket on my back

His bones on the shore

But the secret to dreams is to dream up a door

A portrait of him

A picture of her

A keyhole in a Douglas Fir

## Credits

**Personnel**

* Natasha Khan - songwriting, production, vocals, celesta, vibraphone
* Alex Reeves - timpani, drums and percussion
* Dawn Landes - backing vocals, guitar
* David Baron - sound effects
* Simone Felice - songwriting, recording engineer

## References

1. ↑ "Spoken word poem "Widow's Peak" complete! You guys are gonna FREAK OUT!". 19 December 2015. *Instagram*.
2. ↑ https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/longread/bat-for-lashes-interview
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BCxp2hXxP8m/
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BHNQeSdD\_b3/
5. ↑ "Bat For Lashes: Til death us do part". 30 June 2016. *BBC*.
6. ↑ "Becoming The Bride With Bat For Lashes". 2016. *Pilerats*.