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Tahiti (song)

"**Horse and I**" is the third track on Bat For Lashes' debut album, *Fur and Gold*.

## Lyrics

Community saw the best in me

Exchanging the common heart

For the salt in the sea

Children of the Sun on a highway of hope

The beauty of coming together

In sorrow

Tahiti, we don't got no name

Tahiti, we don't got no home

Tahiti, we don't got no money

Tahiti, we don't got no honey

"But we do the dishes and we make the bread"

"We are powdered ashes in the light of the beauty"

He said

Wear those dark glasses to help us see

Hot tears rolling down and our arms are knitted

All around you

Creatures of the night on a highway of hope

The beauty that we'll leave each other

Tomorrow

Tahiti, we don't got no name

Tahiti, we don't got no home

Tahiti, we don't got no money

Tahiti, we don't got no honey
Horses of the Sun (song)

**Horses of the Sun** is the third track on Bat for Lashes' third album, *The Haunted Man*.

## Background

"Horses of the Sun" was the first song written for the record and was written in a hotel room at the end of the *Two Suns* tour.

Natasha discussed the track with *Q Magazine*:

> This was the first song I wrote for the album. It was written in a hotel room at the end of the Two Suns tour. It sounds most like the old stuff to me. I wrote it on an autoharp in a hotel room. When I brought it back, what moved it into the realm of the new album was [co-producer] David Kosten and I working on this Rihanna-y, Lil Wayne style snare beats, thinking of Snoop Dogg. I was really exploring my voice, trying out the lower part of my register. The content of the song makes sense that it's the first one, it says *I curse the road*. It's walking back through my door off this crazy journey and deciding to stay at home in England and not move for a couple of years. I wanted to incorporate a much more English sound on this album. I was looking at the history of the English side of my family and reading a lot of old English authors and romantic poetry. There are quite archaic themes in there.
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Natasha's quote on the song from a *Billboard* track-by-track interview:

> It’s about coming back from tour and needing rejuvenation. It’s about being away and coming home and seeing eveything’s blossomed whilst I was away and kind of needing that natural assurance to make me feel human again.
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## Lyrics

I cursed the road, I cursed the road

And I came home to the love you gave

And as I walked through my door

I saw the stars spelled out saved

And all the gardens bloomed a flower for each day I was away

Now I'm saved, baby, saved

And all was alive

And all was alive

And all was alive

And all was alive

You and me

We're wild and on the run

Busting out the heavens

Like the horses of the sun

You and me

We're wild and on the run

Busting out the heavens

Like the horses of the sun

I cursed the road, I cursed the road

And I came home to the love you gave

And as I walked through my door

I saw the stars spelled out saved

And all the gardens bloomed a flower for each day I was away

Now I'm saved, baby, saved

And all was alive

And all was alive

And all was alive

And all was alive

You and me

We're wild and on the run

Busting out the heavens

Like the horses of the sun

You and me

We're wild and on the run

Busting out the heavens

Like the horses of the sun

You and me

We're wild and on the run

Busting out the heavens

Like the horses of the sun

You and me

We're wild and on the run

Busting out the heavens

Like the horses of the sun

## References

1. ↑ "Bat For Lashes - Natasha Khan's Guide To New Album The Haunted Man". *Q Magazine*.
2. ↑ "Bat For Lashes: 'The Haunted Man' - Track by Track"
Beck

**Beck Hansen** (born **Bek David Campbell**; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia. He is the son of Canadian arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell.

## With Bat For Lashes

Beck and Bat For Lashes first collaborated with the song "Let's Get Lost" for the *Twilight: Eclipse* soundtrack. The collaboration was done by email and the two never met. While working on her then-untitled third album, Natasha met him in his Malibu home and took him ten early demos, including "Marilyn" that ended up on the album. "Oh Yeah" is another song that made on the album that they worked on, but his name doesn't appear on the song credits.

In 2014, an unreleased collaboration between them, "Under the Indigo Moon", was released on a short film of the same name for Natasha's YMC clothing line.

In early 2019, Beck premiered his song "Tarantula", from the *Roma* soundtrack, on the *Late Late Show With James Corden* joined by an orchestra and backing singers that included Feist and Natasha.

## References

1. ↑ "That's The Spirit! Natasha Khan Of Bat For Lashes Interviewed". 7 October 2012. *The Quietus*.
2. ↑ "Q&A / Music: Bat For Lashes". 6 October 2012. *Dazed*.
3. ↑ "Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan Discusses The Haunted Man, The Carpenters, And Her Naked Album Cover". 19 September 2012. *Stereogum*.
4. ↑ "Natasha Khan: Under the Indigo Moon". 23 May 2014. *Nowness*.
5. ↑ "Watch Beck perform ‘Tarantula’ with Feist and Bat for Lashes". 5 February 2019. *NME*.
Samuel Watkins

**Samuel Watkins** is an Australian actor. He is Natasha Khan's husband.

He played the character Michael on Bat For Lashes's fifth album, *Lost Girls*, and appeared on the "Kids in the Dark" video.

## Personal life

He dated Natasha since 2018 and the two got married around October 2019. The couple's first child, Delphi, was born in August 2020.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KsoQSnaUb/
BBC Radio 6

"**BBC Radio 6 Music**" (also known as **BBC 6 Music** or **BBC 6**) is a digital radio station run by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music. It was known officially as *BBC 6 Music* from its launch on 11 March 2002 until April 2011. 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years.It is available only on digital media: DAB radio, the Internet, digital television, and in northern Europe through the Astra 2B satellite.

## September 29, 2015

Natasha performed “Helelyos” and “War In Peace”, she was also interviewed by Lauren Laverne. Episode description:

> “Sexwitch, the brand new collaboration between Natasha Khan, Dan Carey and the group Toy, are live in session for 6 Music's Lauren Laverne.”
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## July 4, 2016

Natasha performed “In God's House” and “Sunday Love”, she was also interviewed by Mary Anne Hobbs. Episode description:

> “Bat For Lashes perform tracks from their new album 'The Bride' in the Live Room. Natasha Khan's latest record is her most ambitious to date and is out on Parlophone on 1st July. The LP follows the story of a woman whose fiancé has been killed in a crash on the way to the church for their wedding; the soundtrack to an imagined feature length film, it's sonically all encompassing. Bat For Lashes have been premièring the material live in churches, with the audience invited to attend in full wedding attire.
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> We'll also be asking for your Monday Motivators, sharing another Headphones Moment, and finding some more new music to go on our Just Added playlist.”
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Bat For Lashes performs In God's House in the 6 Music Live Room.
## August 19, 2019

Natasha performed “Kids In The Dark” and “The Hunger”, she was also interviewed by Mary Anne Hobbs. Episode description:

> “Bat For Lashes AKA Natasha Khan is live in session from the BBC's Maida Vale studios. Natasha's latest album 'Lost Girls' is due out on the 6th of September.
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> The album is described as full of romance, a homage to Los Angeles, to being a kid in the 80s and to films that touched and changed Natasha's life. Lost Girls is also a concept album, within which Natasha builds an entire parallel universe centred around the lead character Nikki Pink. This is a universe where gangs of marauding female bikers roam the streets and a powerful female energy casts spells and leave clues for us to follow.
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> The first track we heard from Natasha's new project was Kids in the Dark, which we completely fell in love with so we can't wait to hear more from the record and to chat to Natasha about it's creation.”
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## References

1. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033ysxm
2. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hk2d2
3. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007qw4
Deep Sea Diver (song)

"**Deep Sea Diver**" is the closing track (on the standard edition) of Bat For Lashes' third album, *The Haunted Man*.

## Background

"Deep Sea Diver" has a lot of sea imagery in the lyrics because when Natasha wrote the album she was living by the sea. The loop heard throughout the song was created by looping the sound of the harmonium pedals. As explained by Natasha, the song is about "tasting the rich, good things in life—the small but rich things."

> This wasn't written as a closing song, and for a while I didn't know what the last song would be. As it developed, I really like the ambient layering. It's a comforting song for me, it sets everything back to neutral. It's a good cuddle at the end of the album. It built-up slowly with loads of layers. The beginning of the song has a really important refrain: *Let your hair down, throw your head back, relax, it's alright*. By the end the music takes over and it's called Deep Sea Diver. Maybe you're on your own, feeling really good sitting at the bottom of the sea!
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The song was performed live for the first time on 9 April 2020 on a livestream concert.

## Lyrics

You came running out of the dark

With the tears in your eyes

This time I'm not afraid

Cause my heart's ablaze

Baby, throw your head back

Let your hair down

Baby, let your hair down

It's time to get enchanted

You're a deep sea diver

Tides are turning in your favour

You came running out of the dark

With the tears in your eyes

And the moth and the moon saw

A new religion being born

Baby, let your head fall back

And laugh like you never

Tasted such a good thing on your tongue

Baby, let your scream come

Baby, let your scream come

Said you'd been taken over

By a deeper animal

You'd been changed

What's grown up around you

Is a different skin

You thought I wouldn't know your face

Baby, if you can't see out

Know that I can hear you shout

And darling if you can't see out

You know that I can hear you shout

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bat For Lashes: 'The Haunted Man' - Track by Track". *YouTube*.
2. ↑ "Bat For Lashes Discusses “The Haunted Man,” Its Album Cover, and Her Family History". 24 October 2012. *Under the Radar*.
3. ↑ "Bat For Lashes - Natasha Khan's Guide To New Album The Haunted Man". 12 October 2012. *Q Magazine*.
4. ↑ "Here's a recording of Deep Sea Diver..."
Healing Fire (song)

"**Healing Fire**" is a song by Bat For Lashes released on the 2004 demo album *Who Stole Petretski's Thunder?*.

## Audio

Bat for Lashes - Healing Fire (2004 demo)
## Lyrics

Opened up my eyes and the wind blew my mind

Right out of my head and into the night

Jumping into the darkness and out of sight

Pour, pour, pour the healing fire on me

Now I'm in the dusty desert of souls

Wandering with no light, just a pair of eye-holes

Searching hard to find someone who can show me

Myself in their eyes, and where my fire may be

Breathe, breathe, breathe the fire back into me!

Pour, pour, pour the knowledge, I need to be free!

Drink, drink, drink the healing water on me

Opened up my eyes and the wind blew my mind

Opened up my eyes and the wind blew my mind

Whistled through my heart to call the love it could find

And I felt so ashamed I let it go with no fight

Pour, pour, pour the healing fire on me

Drink, drink, drink the healing water on me

Pour, pour, pour the knowledge, I need to be free!

Opened up my eyes and the wind blew my mind
Performances: The Dream Of Delphi

This page is a list of performances from the The Dream Of Delphi era started in June 2023. Natasha announced on her social media that the album would be coming soon and performed on three dates where the song that gives the album its name debuted live.

## 2023

* Concerts
* The Dream Of Delphi Tour
* Broadcast

List of concerts showing date, show and locations
 June 13, 2023
 June 15, 2023

* There were no tour dates.

- There were no broadcast in particular.

## Links

2005-06: Amateur years2006-08: Fur and Gold2009-11: Two Suns2011-13: The Haunted Man2014-15: SEXWITCH2016-18: The Bride2019-22: Lost Girls2023-27: **The Dream Of Delphi**
I'm On Fire (song)

"**I'm On Fire**" is a bonus track released on the re-release of Bat For Lashes' debut album, *Fur And Gold*. The song is originally by Bruce Springsteen.

## Lyrics

Hey, little boy, is your mama home?

Did she go and leave you all alone?

Oh, got a bad desire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Tell me now, baby, is she good to you?

Does she do to you the things that I do?

Oh, I can take you higher

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, edgy and blunt

Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul

Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet

And a freight train running through the middle of my head

But you, you cool my desire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and blunt

Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul

Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet

And a freight train running through the middle of my head

But you, you cool my desire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and blunt

Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul

Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet

And a freight train running through the middle of my head

But you, you cool my desire

Oh, I'm on fire
Tariq Khan

**Tariq Khan** is the brother of Natasha Khan and Suraya Khan and son of Josie and Rehmat Khan. He was a member of Moones, who disbanded in 2017, and is currently a member of the duo Other Nature.

He played synths on "Rest Your Head", remixed "A Wall" under Other Nature moniker, and helped to write "The Hunger", though he is not credited on ASCAP as a writer.

## References

1. ↑ "Gallows guitarist brings new band Moones to St Albans". 8 January 2014. *Reviews*.
2. ↑ Moones's Facebook page
3. ↑ Other Nature's Facebook page
4. ↑ *The Haunted Man* (2012), liner notes.
5. ↑ "Sometime last year my Sister sent me a bunch of demos she was working on which ended up becoming the album *Lost Girls*. One particular song (The Hunger) stood out so I sent some top line ideas via the trusty WhatsApp voice note feature. She ended up using some of the melodies which made up a small part of the song - The best part obviously!!!!" - Instagram post on 11 September 2019
Missing Time (song)

"**Missing Time**" is an unreleased song performed by Bat For Lashes.

## Background

That was performed a few times in 2007 while promoting *Fur And Gold*. 11 years later, it was performed after "Close Encounters" on the *Lost Girls* tour. It is unknown if a studio version of the song exists.

The song uses alien abduction imagery to address a breakup.

## Lyrics

The night that they came for you

Where from I just can’t say

Green lights that outshone the moon

I looked at them face to face

I’m so tired, am I dreaming?

Do you see what I can see?

I’m so tired, I can’t remember

Have they come for you or me?

I tried to stop you, but you walked to them

The lights on our street went out

With no goodbyes, what were we witnessing?

Your feet lifted off the ground

Missing time

That’s what you gave to me

Disappeared overnight

You never came back to me

And when I knew you’d gone

A star that I could not track

The night was so still, so wrong

I cried for them to bring you back

I’m so sad, I can’t remember

Do you feel what I can feel?

In my dreams, we walk together

Perfect sorrow haunting me

Missing time

That’s what you gave to me

Disappeared overnight

You never came back to me

Missing time

That’s what you gave to me

Disappeared overnight

You never came back to me

## Audio

Bat for lashes "Missing time" - Live @ Rennes-UBU 2007.10.23Live version
## References

1. ↑ "Missing Time by Bat for Lashes Song Statistics". *Setlist.fm*.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bat for Lashes, St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton review – a heartfelt homecoming". 2 December 2019. *The Arts Desk*.
June 2023 UK Tour

"**The June 2023 UK Tour**"is the sixth concert tour by Bat For Lashes. It is in support of her fifth studio album, *Lost Girls* and as a prelude to *The Dream Of Delphi*. The tour began on June 12, 2023 at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, and concluded at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on June 15, 2023.

## Setlist

In total 15 songs were performed throughout the tour: 6 from *Los*t Girls*, 3* from *The Bride*, 2 from *Two Suns*, 1 from *The Haunted Man*  and 3 covers.

1. "At Your Feet"
2. "Letter To My Daughter"
3. "The Dream Of Delphi"
4. "The Hunger"
5. "Mountains"
6. "Desert Man"
7. "Horse And I"
8. "Deep Sea Diver"
9. "Daniel"
10. "What's A Girl To Do?"
11. "Trophy"
12. "Tahiti"
13. "Siren Song"
14. "Kids In The Dark" / "True Colors" (Cyndi Lauper cover)
15. "Close Encounters"
16. "Sleep Alone" (Acapella)
17. "Glass"
18. "Laura"

## Tour dates

List of concerts showing date, city and country
 June 13, 2023
 June 15, 2023

## Merchandise

Merchandise was not sold at all dates, and the selection varied.
The Projector (song)

"**The Projector**" is a song by Simone Felice from his eighth studio album of the same name, released on 13 April 2018. It features backing vocals from Natasha Khan and Four Tet.

## Lyrics

Billy Saint Claire with the willowy air

Breaks into Trinity Church on a dare

Where the pastor hides a camera

To capture the rapture the day that it comes

But Billy gets afraid and he runs

Don't look in the back room untll you get older

Let the projector on over and over

Over and over

Enter the guests

In their animal masks

I remember the way the antelope danced

With the goat, the dog, the catfish, the crows in the ballroom

The night that we spied from the store room

They lead from the hip

And they spin from the shoulder

Let the projector on over and over

Over and over

Just as long as you walk the earth

Just as long as you walk the earth

Just as long as you run those faces

They'll follow you

So we play out these parts

In the relative dark

They hand you a script

And then they pick you a part

Memorise all your lines

And the most you can hope to be an extra

If they let ya

And then they find you in the bathtub

Alone with the toaster

Let the projector on over and over

Over and over

All the while you felt so alone

All the while you felt so alone

But all the while there were bugs in the phone

And you were not alone...

You're never alone

You're not alone

You're never alone

You're not alone

## References

1. ↑ "Simone Felice unveils new single “The Projector” featuring Four Tet and Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan". 15 February 2018. *The Line of Best Fit*.
Who Stole Petretski's Thunder?

**Who Stole Petretski's Thunder? i**s a homemade demo album done by Natasha Khan, burned and distributed during shows in Brighton in 2004. Artwork by Natasha.

Although it's never been officially released, "Horrorshow" is registered on Natasha's ASCAP repertoire.

## Track listing

All songs are written and composed by Natasha Khan.

## References

1. ↑ "Bat For Lashes ‎– Who Stole Petretski's Thunder? (2004, CDr)". *Discogs*.
2. ↑ "HORRORSHOW (Legal Title)". *ASCAP*.
Sunday Love (song)

"**Sunday Love**" is the fourth track on Bat For Lashes' conceptual fourth album, *The Bride*. It was released as the third single off the album on 27 May 2016.

## Background

Within The Bride's story, it's the moment where she "flees from the church, she’s on her car, she’s driving, and she’s being pursued by the ghost of grief."

> “This character ‘Sunday Love’ is turning up in her bed like everywhere she goes, she’s like this cold grip,” Khan explains. “Like, you know when something really bad happens? And you wake up the next morning and then you feel OK and then you remember what happened? It’s almost like trauma on your tail.”
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## Lyrics

See her in blue eyes

Numb and shining

In the face of strangers

In the city lights

Grey is climbing

Cupid’s diving

And I know that she's come

To spend the night

I see her in every place I go

Sunday love is so cold

Even though I’m falling apart

I want Sunday love in my heart

See her in blue eyes

Still and shining

In lonely lovers

On bed sheets white

Grey shapes sliding

I've been pining

She's in my bedroom

Now I can't fight

I see her in every place I go

Sunday love is so cold

Even though I’m falling apart

I want Sunday love in my heart

I see her in every place I go

Sunday love is so cold

Even though I’m falling apart

I want Sunday love in my heart

I see her in every place I go

Sunday love is so cold

Even though I’m falling apart

I want Sunday love in my heart

## References

1. ↑ "Bat For Lashes | Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2016 | Full Set | PitchforkTV". 7 December 2016.*YouTube*.
2. ↑ "Talking With: Bat For Lashes On The Bride As A Journey Through Grief". 1 July 2016. B*K Magazine*.
Pearl's Dream (song)

"**Pearl's Dream**" is the seventh track on Bat For Lashes' second album, *Two Suns*. It was released as the second single off the album.

## Background

Chris Keating from Yeasayer provided additional drum programming on the track.

During a lo-fi performance of the song for *NME*, Natasha explained the song:

> “Pearl’s Dream” is kind of a journey through the desert, the city, and the forest. It’s a song of a girl who’s left battle, a battle that is almost like the destruction of a love affair. She decides just to keep driving, leave that person behind, and follow new horizons.
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The song's title contains the name of Pearl, Khan's alter ego on *Two Suns*. It also may be a reference to "Pearl's Dream" from the soundtrack of the 50s film *The Night of the Hunter*, a film that inspired Khan to create the Pearl alter ego.

> “Pearl inspired me,” Khan says. “She’s lost in the world, and she and her brother travel down the river looking for home. The album is about a search for a home, and belonging, and searching for love.”
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## Lyrics

There's a place I must go

There's a place I must go

It's not a place I have seen

But I'll get there in a blue dream

Down the ocean road

Past a sign that says "Good Love Town"

Into a darkness where the stars do drown

But a star in me needs to be free

And when the battle was done

I was promised my sun

But with a thousand nights gone

To a new kingdom I run

And when the battle was done

I was promised my sun

But with a thousand nights gone

To a new kingdom I run

There's a place I must go

There's a place I must go

For my heart is a child

That stumbles lonely for the arms of the wild

Hear the desert sigh

Sing the city's lullaby

The giant iris of the wild blue sky

Is showing me the way

And when the battle was done

I was promised my sun

But with a thousand nights gone

To a new kingdom I run

And when the battle was done

I was promised my sun

But with a thousand nights gone

To a new kingdom I run

You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up

Had a big machine riding your shoulders

*(Been so long since I've got to find you)*

You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up

Had a big machine riding your shoulders

You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up

Had a big machine riding your shoulders

## Credits

* Natasha Khan - Lead vocals, backing vocals, synth, drum programming, handclaps, engineer, production
* Chris Keating - drum programming
* Ira Wolf Tuton - bass
* David Kosten - synth, drum programming, percussion, engineer, mixing, production
* David Wrench - engineer

## References

1. ↑ "Bat For Lashes". 8 June 2009. *Pitchfork*.
2. ↑ "Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream (acoustic version) (incomplete).flv - NME". 2009.
3. ↑ " FEATURE: Bat For Lashes". 5 March 2009. *Fader*.
4. ↑ "Bat for Lashes Mourn Both Lost Love and A Lost Vision of New York". 8 April 2009. *The Village Voice*.
Ben Christophers

**Ben Christophers** is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. He is Bat For Lashes's usual collaborator.

## With Bat For Lashes

Ben joined the live band in 2008 for the tour in support of Radiohead. He performed many instruments on *Two Suns*, was part of the 3-piece male choir that sang on *The Haunted Man*'s title track and performed on "Marilyn", and co-produced *The Bride*.

He was a touring member from 2008 to 2016, playing keyboards and doing backing vocals.

## Discography

* *My Beautiful Demon* (1999)
* *Spoonface* (2001)
* *The Spaces in Between* (2004)
* *Viewfinder* (2005)
* *Ben Christophers* (2010)

## References

1. ↑ "The Live Sound of Bat For Lashes: Ben Christophers Interview". 29 October 2012. *Soniccouture*.
2. ↑ *The Haunted Man* (2012), liner notes.
3. ↑ *The Bride* (2016), liner notes.
Skin Song (song)

"**Skin Song**" is a song written and performed by Bat For Lashes, released on a compilation album titled *Body Of Songs*, a collection of 10 songs by some of the UK’s best artists, inspired by the body’s organs. It was released as the first song off the album on 10 July 2014.

## Background

Fascinated by the life saving properties of touch to our wellbeing and development as children, Natasha chose the skin. She explored diseased skin at the Gordon Museum of Pathology with experts, Dr Laura Casey and Dr Ian Proctor.

With Professor Fiona Watt, Director of the King’s Centre for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, she discovered that skin cells are highly regenerative, moving through the dermis to the outer layer, dying and being remade at high speed.

With Dr Fiona Jeffries, psychologist at the Dermatology Department at Great Ormond Street Hospital, she considered the psychological impact of limited touch, particularly for children who suffer from skin conditions which cause altered skin appearance.

> “The song is from the perspective of an old lady looking back on her life through thoughts of the history in her skin.
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## Lyrics

I'm a little older now

There's scars and there are frowns

There's memories in the dust

The skin that I live in is cool and paper-thin

It's got a swan song to sing

I've blushed and I have bruised

Felt the passing of youth

I've bled and I have healed

Held babes in my arms

Counted lovers, counted scars

The prayers when I had you

Cause I have my time

It dances in the skin when I smile

And for the years that pass me by

My body's an old good friend of mine

And when the nerves are warmed

In tiny hairs and rows

In cells that call my name

I feel those echoes out

And you are in the scars under my shirt again

Cause I have my time

It dances in the skin when I smile

And for the years that pass me by

My body's an old good friend of mine

My body's an old good friend of mine

## References

1. ↑ Minsker, Evan (10 July 2014). "Bat For Lashes Shares "Skin Song"". *Pitchfork*.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Bat For Lashes". *Bodyofsongs.co.uk*.
Sarah (song)

"**Sarah**" is the tenth track on Bat For Lashes' debut album, *Fur And Gold*.

## Background

A reworked version of the song was performed during the tour in support of *Fur and Gold*. This live version was later released on the single of "What's a Girl to Do?" in 2007.

## Lyrics

Adopting Sarah's heart

*Was never gonna be easy*

With an angel tattoo sinking beneath her belt

*Sarah*

And the dirty blonde seawater

*Seawater gushing down*

Chewing fingernails in her shit-eating grin

*Sarah*

They cut out her heart when

*She was a little girl*

And in a fishing boat she thought she saw the shadow of God

*Sarah*

He didn't smile at her and she decided

*He never came at all*

And when she died she was going nowhere

Sarah, I want to be like you

Sarah

You know, sometimes I want to live like you

Sarah

So I know how it feels not to feel

Sarah

Adopting Sarah's heart

*Was never gonna be easy*

Changing from black to blonde to black to blonde

*Sarah*

But on the dirty tarmac of

*The tarmac of a melting motorway*

Gave me her clothes and told me to take her place

Sarah, I want to be like you

Sarah

You know, sometimes I want to live like you

Sarah

So I know how it feels not to feel

Sarah

## References

1. ↑ "Bat For Lashes - Sarah (Glastonbury 2007)"
2. ↑ "Discography | Bat for Lashes". *Batforlashes.com*. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009.
XOYO

"**XOYO**" is a nightclub in London. It is located on Cowper Street near Old Street station in Islington. The two-room club opened in 2010, occupying a converted print works. It was bought and renovated by The Columbo Group.

Eats Everything became the club’s first resident in January 2015. In November 2014, XOYO launched Gloria's, a mixed gay and straight night, alongside polysexual East London collective Sink the Pink.

XOYO was voted one of the world's top 100 clubs by *DJ Mag* in 2020.

The band performed all the songs from the album at this festival on August 22, 2015. Being the second of two unique dates that the band performed to promote the self-titled album, SEXWITCH.

## September 29, 2015

* Ghoroobaa Ghashangan
* Ha Howa Ha Howa
* Helelyos
* Lam Plearn Kiew Bao
* War In Peace
* The Bride
* Kassidat El Hakka
Prescilla (song)

"**Prescilla**" is the seventh track on Bat For Lashes' debut album, *Fur and Gold*. It was released as the album's third single on 5 March 2007.

## Background

In an interview, Natasha said the song "came to me in a dream by an imaginary friend, it was sung to me. I woke up and I was like, 'Oh my God, that song is amazing.' I wished someone could tell me who it was by, and then I had realized it was something I had *written*."

The beats heard throughout the song were made by "stamping on bits of wood and clapping" in Natasha's bedroom.

For the single version, Natasha worked closely with producer Matt Boynton and a horn section to re-record the song at Vacation Island in order to produce a more raw, rhythmic and full sound.

## Lyrics

There's a girl that wants to stop

Been thinking about having a couple of kids

Comb a brush around their heads in the morning

To be needed, simply and with meaning

Her name is Karen

Been on the road for so long

She wants to live in a place that has a number and a name

Find love as an anchor before the courage is gone

She really loves him, Prescilla

She really loves him, Prescilla

She really loves him, I tell you

To live life outside the whirl

To break the cross that bears her name

She's not your queen anymore (queen of the highway)

Needs something better than running away

She really loves him, Prescilla

She really loves him, Prescilla

She really loves him, I tell you

Gone away!

Queen of the Highway

Gone away!

Gone away!

Queen of the Highway

Gone away!

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Batforlashes.com. 28 January 2007. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.
2. ↑ Gentile, Jessica (August 2007). "Bat For Lashes". *CMJ New Music*. Issue 149-150.
3. ↑ "Bat For Lashes". 8 June 2009. *Pitchfork*.
4. ↑ "Interview with Bat For Lashes - Platform 09". 2007. *Platform Magazine*.
David Baron

**David Baron** is a composer, producer, arranger, recording engineer and keyboardist from Boiceville, New York.

## Work with Bat For Lashes

Baron co-produced, mixed, performed on Bat For Lashes's fourth studio album, *The Bride*:

* "I Do" (bass, synth)
* "Joe's Dream" (Rhodes, synth, programming)
* "In God's House" (synth, programming, recording engineer)
* "Close Encounters" (synths, programming and strings arrangement)
* "Widow's Peak" (sound effects)
* "In Your Bed" (additional production)
Dan Carey

**Daniel De Mussenden Carey** (born 24 December 1969) is an English record producer, writer, mixer and remixer.

Carey owns his own studio in South London and runs the record label Speedy Wunderground in co-operation with Heavenly Recordings.

## With Bat For Lashes

He co-produced and performed on seven tracks on Bat For Lashes's third studio album, *The Haunted Man*. He worked with Natasha Khan again in 2013 on the Iranian cover song "The Bride" with English rock band TOY, which was released via his own label. The trio later founded the Sexwitch project in 2015 and released a debut self-titled album consisting of six covers of 70s psychedelic songs from different parts of the world.

He co-produced and co-wrote "Sunday Love" on Khan's fourth album, *The Bride*.

## References

1. ↑ Freeman, John (7 October 2012). "That's The Spirit! Natasha Khan Of Bat For Lashes Interviewed". *The Quietus*.
2. ↑ Minsker, Evan (10 June 2013). "Listen: Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan and TOY: "The Bride"". *Pitchfork*.
3. ↑ Monroe, Jazz (August 2015). "Bat for Lashes Discusses Debut Sexwitch Album, Shares "Helelyos"". *Pitchfork*.
4. ↑ *The Bride* (2016), liner notes.
Safe Tonight (song)

"**Safe Tonight**" is a song performed by Bat For Lashes. It serves as the eighth track on Natasha's fifth album, *Lost Girls*.

## Background

This song contains additional production by British singer/producer MNEK, and he also contributed to backing vocals, synths and bass guitar.

On September 7, 2019, Natasha shared an artwork for the track.

## Critical reception

THE LINE OF BEST FIT opined:

> “Safe Tonight” is the most straightforward song on the record – one you can imagine making a montage scene worth watching. Can you imagine Molly Ringwald staring pensively out of a window, rain battering against the pains as she remembers a lost love? “Safe Tonight” does just that via music alone.”
>
>

EXCLAIM opined:

> “The album's duality is found in the underlying fear and anxieties within its love story, captured in the synth and beats of "Safe Tonight," a song where Khan questions whether she is "so in love you'd leave me behind.”
>
>

## Lyrics

I thought that I was broken

I thought that I had lost my mind

I thought that I was so in

So in love, you'd leave me behind

I did not always show how

It can be hard for me to cry

I thought that I was broken

Until you said, you’re safe tonight

Lying in the dark and I am out of time

There's a demon in my heart that I'm not sure we’ll survive

The shadows come around one too many times

Baby, I need you to tell me I'm safe tonight

I thought that I was broken

I thought that I had lost my mind

I thought that I was so in

So in love, you'd leave me behind

I did not always show how

It can be hard for me to cry

I thought that I was broken

Until you said, you're safe tonight

Lying in the dark but now you take my hand

We were worlds apart, you say you understand

There's a cloud in my heart that made me scared to try

But I hold you close, now I'm safe tonight

Safe tonight, we'll go away

Safe tonight, we'll always stay

Safe tonight, don’t go away

Safe tonight, you’ll always stay

Safe tonight, don't ya go away

Safe tonight, you’ll always stay

Safe tonight, don't go away

Safe tonight, you'll always stay

You're safe tonight

You’re safe tonight

You're safe tonight

You're safe tonight

## References

1. ↑ *Lost Girls* (liner notes), 2019.
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HkA5Vnwkc/
3. ↑ https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/bat-for-lashes-lost-girls-album-review
4. ↑ https://exclaim.ca/music/article/bat\_for\_lashes\_discovered\_new\_parts\_of\_herself\_on\_new\_album\_lost\_girls
Lumen (song)

"**Lumen**" is a bonus track of Bat For Lashes' third album, *The Haunted Man*.

## Background

The song was performed fourteen times in the *Haunted Man* tour in Europe. Natasha sang "swim in the lake" instead of "bathe in the lake" from the studio version.

## Lyrics

She did curl, up in the cold

And the sleeping man, he reached inside her dress

A glowing tear spilled on the boat

And the lighthouse beamed, it's softly spoke

Lumen, Lumen

Lumen, I'll see you again (see you again)

Just stand to life, bathe in the lake

A fall down drunk, roll around

I found all the hurts, I see them both

Throughout the night, clean out the ghosts

Lumen, Lumen

Lumen, I'll see you again

Lumen

## References

1. ↑ "The Haunted Man (Deluxe Version) by Bat for Lashes on Apple Music". *Apple Music*.
2. ↑ "Bat for Lashes Tour Statistics: 2012". *Setlist.fm*.
Ha Howa Ha Howa (song)

"Helelyos"
"****Ha Howa Ha Howa****"

"**Ha Howa Ha Howa**" is a song performed by Sexwitch. It serves as the opening track on Sexwitch's debut album, *SEXWITCH*. It was released as the second promotional single off the album on September 18, 2015.

## Background

Natasha shared a snippet of the song on August 19, 2015 in a post on Instagram. The song is originally by Moroccan singer Cheikha Hadda Ouakki, released on the 2013 compilation album *Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco*.

## Music and composition

In an interview with *Pitchfork*, Natasha Khan explained the background behind the song:

> “... and “Ha Howa Ha Howa”, the “he addicted me” song—the girl that originally sang that [Cheikha Hanna Ouakki] was really young, 15, 16. She travelled around these mountain villages and became this vagabond singer. She’s the one that sounded so street, so contemporary. I loved her spirit, I felt her freedom in the way she was singing it. So it’s really nice to shine a light on that time in those countries where there was liberation.”
>
>

## Critical reception

The Stereogum opined:

> “Their initial track “Helelyos” built up to a towering height, and “Ha Howa Ha Howa” works in a similar manner. Her chanting turns to wailing and the groove mimics that transition, building and swelling along the course of the track’s seven minutes.”
>
>

Consequence of Sound opined:

> “Sexwitch has shared another such track in the form of “Ha Howa Ha Howa”. Originally by Moroccan artist Cheikha Hadda Ouakki, Khan’s version utilizes hypnotic rhythms and the drone of water-logged synths as the wave on which her psychedelic vocalizations ride as she repeats, “He addicted me/ He addicted me/ And I addicted him/ And I addicted him”.”
>
>

## Lyrics

Oh my night life

He addicted me

He addicted me

He addicted me and I addicted him

And I addicted him

He addicted me

And he addicted me

And he addicted me and I addicted him

And I addicted him

Oh my night life

Oh our night life

Oh my night life

Oh my lover

He will tease me with thousand kisses, thousand kisses

Oh my lover, he will tease with thousand kisses, thousand kisses

Oh our night life

Oh my life night

Oh my life night

He's my lover

Tease me with thousand kisses

Kisses!

Oh my night life, oh my night life

Oh my night life, oh my night life

He addicted me, he addicted me

He addicted me, he addicted me

He addicted me and I addicted him

He addicted, he addicted

He addicted me and I addicted him

With a thousand kisses

## Gallery

Sexwitch - Ha Howa Ha Howa (Official Audio)
## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/6kQ2qAxP1X/
2. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/news/60902-bat-for-lashes-discusses-debut-sexwitch-album-shares-helelyos/
3. ↑ https://www.stereogum.com/1831731/sexwitch-ha-howa-ha-howa/mp3s/
4. ↑ https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/09/sexwitch-track-ha-howa-ha-howa/
The Bride (song)

"**The Bride**" is originally a song by Iranian singer Amir Rassaei covered by Natasha Khan and TOY. It was released via Dan Carey's own label, Speedy Wunderground.

## Background

Originally titled "Aroos Khanom", it's "a song about a woman who gets banished to the desert when her husband dies, because she’s useless to society."

> "It's an Iranian song about a woman who is banished to the desert because her husband doesn't turn up to the wedding, and how broken and cast aside by society she is because she's not a married woman."
>
>

Contrary to popular belief, this song didn't inspire Bat For Lashes' fourth studio album, titled *The Bride*.

On 29 March 2022, Natasha shared a vocal session of this song on her Instagram.

## Lyrics

Now my heart is sitting in my chest

With no one to confide in

Now my heart is sitting in my chest

With no one to confined in

What does a bush in the desert

Even know about the spring?

What does a bush in the desert

Even know about the spring?

In its loneliness

It will sing a song

In its loneliness

It will sing a song

In its loneliness

It will sing a song

In its loneliness

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

God only knows that I am the Sun

Only colours of autumn will prevail

Only colours of autumn will prevail

Hey children don’t throw stones to this broken hearted

Hey children don’t throw stones to this broken heart

Hey children don’t throw stones to this broken

Hey children don’t throw stones to this broken heart

Now my heart is beating in my chest

With no one to confide in

Now my heart is beating in my chest

With no one to confide in

Now my heart is beating in my chest

With no one to confide in

Now my heart

Now my heart

Now my heart...

*(... beating in my chest*
*... no one to confide in*

*My heart is beating in my chest*

*With no one to confide in)*

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

Anyone who came near me tried

Somehow to deceive me

## References

1. ↑ "Listen: Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan and TOY: "The Bride"". 10 June 2013. *Pitchfork*.
2. ↑ Listen the original here.
3. ↑ Nash, Ed (21 June 2016). "INTERVIEW: Bat For Lashes on the art of storytelling". *Line of the Best Fit*.
4. ↑ Potts, Dianca (2016). "Music Monday: An Interview with Bat For Lashes". *Lenny Letter*.
5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbsmu69pb2y/
Lost Girls (character)

"**Lost Girls"** is a gang of women on the universe of Bat For Lashes's fifth album, Lost Girls.

## Background

Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, reveals the video for 'Kids In The Dark' and her Lost Girls gang as she directs and stars in this first visual for her fifth album. The video is shot against the hills of Los Angeles, with the mysterious light of the evening shading the proceedings, and features Nikki Pink alongside the Lost Girls. In June, Natasha featured tantalizing clues on social media in the form of video and photography, and the mysterious Lost Girls phone line was flooded with strange and intriguing #batphoners messages about Nikki's whereabouts.

Nikki Pink and the Lost Girls are featured in the only two music videos on the album, being the main characters in the plot.

Natasha shared the names of the gang members on July 9, 2019 with a couple of individual photos on her social media.

## Traits

The Lost Girls are introduced to history as beautiful young women who usually wear leather and black jeans, they usually use a scarf with which they cover their hair, their eyes are outlined in black and their lips are usually painted red or cream colors. They are characterized by carrying strange black plastic strips of knots in their hands.

## Members

There are 8 members of the club, 7 girls and Nikki Pink. To date there are no official photos of Jasmine but Natasha in an interview with NPR clarified that she belongs to the gang. The official names of the girls will be listed below along with their respective photos.

"Eleanor""Evangeline""Avery""Bella""Isa""Anna""Nikki""Jasmine"

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/tv/Byp639gHYPH/
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BztEKNRHnh2/
The Echo Label

**The Echo Label** was a record label started by Chrysalis Group in 1994, and linked with Pony Canyon in Japan. The Chrysalis Group were the original owners of Chrysalis Records, which they sold to EMI.

In May 2013, Sony Music Entertainment purchased the distribution rights to Echo material and was re-issued in July under the label. In March 2017, Sony’s distribution rights expired, and BMG Rights Management (which acquired the Chrysalis Music publisher in 2010) transferred the distribution to Warner Music Group’s Alternative Distribution Alliance division.

The Echo imprint now exclusively sits within BMG, which also administers much of the publishing through the Chrysalis catalogue. Echo continues to exploit a number of artist catalogues, including Feeder, Bat for Lashes, and several artist catalogues acquired from Warner Music.

## Bat For Lashes

Bat For Lashes signed to Echo in 2006, thus releasing her debut album, *Fur and Gold*, in September that year. In 2007, Bat for Lashes and Echo signed an international licensing deal with Parlophone, which re-released *Fur and Gold* the same year. She released her subsequent three albums (*Two Suns*, *The Haunted Man* and *The Bride*) via Echo, as well as her side project's self-titled debut album, *SEXWITCH* (2015).

## References

1. ↑ "Bat For Lashes sign to the Echo label". 9 June 2006. *Music Week*.
2. ↑ Brandle, Lars (18 July 2007). "Parlophone Seals Bat For Lashes Deal". *Billboard*.
I Will Love Again (song)

"**I Will Love Again**" is a song performed by Bat For Lashes. It serves as the eleventh track on Natasha's, *The Bride*. The song was featured on the fifth episode of the seven season of *Elite* (also spelled Élite or ÉLITƎ)*,* a Spanish series featured on Netflix.

## Music and composition

"I Will Love Again" is a hopeful song on the album, where The Bride is retaining hope when she could be cynical and don't believe in love anymore.

> “That song is the understanding that all isn’t lost: that she’s a new person, retaining hope when you could choose to be cynical or become this hardened person - like in “Widow's Peak”, where the widows take you over and you’ll never get out. It’s the fact that she can open her heart to possibly loving again, who knows? But she knows that it’s there and that’s really reassuring to me. You can get heartbroken and cynical but it’s really important to remain open, because love is all there is at the end of the day.”
>
>

Khan told *Uncut* magazine:

> What’s so beautiful about the album is towards the end there’s this thankfulness and this great gratitude to the bride’s dead fiancé for standing by her side through this journey of self-discovery and learning to really love yourself. I think that it was through him making her stand on her own two feet that she was able to get to the end – songs like “If I Knew” and “I Will Love Again”, where she realises how unconditional love from another person can really heal you and help you to find a space in yourself where you’re not looking to an external source to rescue you. By the end it’s the greatest love of all, which is this really poignant kind of companionship that she’s developed with him even though he’s not there in his physical form. He’s loved her to the point where she’s ready to really love someone in a real way, and so the album is about setting yourself up to really love someone. It is pro-relationships and pro-companionships and love, but it’s anti-overly romanticised, idealistic, and quite scary codependent ideas about love, which I think we’re sold quite shamelessly in films and media.
>
>

## Lyrics

One of these nights

One of these days

I will love again

Oh, I was a deer in the lights

I was lost in the waves

But I will love again

Cause I will turn it back around

I'll be homeward bound

I will turn it back around

I'll be homeward bound

One of these nights

One of these days

I will love again

I was an eagle in flight

I was lost in the caves

But I will love again

Cause I will turn it back around

I'll be homeward bound

I will turn it back around

I'll be homeward bound

## Credits

**Personnel**

* Natasha Khan — songwriting, production, vocals, drum machine
* Lou Rogai —  songwriting, backing vocals, guitar, bass
* Simone Felice — songwriting, recording engineer

**Technical**
* Recorded At The Retreat Brighton & Ohayo Mountain, Woodstock, NYC

## References

1. ↑ "INTERVIEW: Bat For Lashes on the art of storytelling". 21 June 2016. *Line of the Best Fit*.
2. ↑ Snapes, Laura (19 August 2016). "Bat For Lashes – The Bride (Review and Interview)". *Uncut*.