A Change of Heart

## Music video

**"A Change of Heart"** is a song by English rock band The 1975 on the album *I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it*. It was released as a radio and streaming single on 22 February 2016 with a physical single released on 15 March 2016, and the corresponding music video coming on 21 April 2016.

## Background

*"It’s such a simple song – three notes – and the truth. We wanted it to [have] serious conviction. It turned into a very atypical "1975" song, being very sentimental, very self-aware, and as beautiful as we can make it."*
"A Change of Heart" is a melancholy track about falling out of love. It paints a picture of a deep sentiment about not truly being attached to the person with whom you’ve invested so much of your time and emotions. Specifically, the band analyzes the lack of connection in the digital age as they detail how the person is more interested in the images on the screens of their phone than with the relationship. The more connected they become through social media, the more disconnected they are in reality:

*You said I’m full of diseases*
*Your eyes were full of regret*
*And then you took a picture of your salad*
*And put it on the Internet*
It is refined in its simplicity, and slyly plays on themes from the band’s first album, specifically from the tracks "Robbers" and "The City" with sharp lyrics. In "Robbers" Healy boldly proclaimed:

*She had a face straight outta magazine*
*God only knows but you’ll never leave her*
But now he’s acknowledged those feelings have faded and he’s not fighting to keep that person around:

*You used to have a face straight out of a magazine*
*Now you just look like anyone*
On "The City" there was an excitement and an anticipation for all the wondrous things that were just around the corner. It was a statement on what could be:

*Yeah, if you wanna find love then you know where the city is*
However, now the city is a place of disappointment and crumpled dreams with pieces of two hearts littered along the sidewalks and stuck in the cracks of the pavement of everywhere they walked along when they were still in love.

*I feel as though I was deceived*
*I never found love in the city*
*I just sat in self-pity and cried in the car*
*Oh I just had a change of heart*
"A Change of Heart" sums up in basic terms, that sometimes there isn’t a clear reason as to why you don’t want to be with someone anymore. The band tackles this purely with simple three-note repetitions to fully express the directness of moving on.

## Lyrics

Are we awake?

Am I too old to be this stoned?

Was it your breasts from the start?

They played a part

For goodness sake

I wasn't told you'd be this cold

Now it's my time to depart

And I just had a change of heart

I'll quote "on the road" like a twat

And wind my way out of the city

Finding a girl who is equally pretty won't be hard

Oh, I just had a change of heart

[Instrumental interlude]

You smashed a glass into pieces

And that's around the time I left

And you were coming across as clever

Then you lit the wrong end of your cigarette

You said I'm full of diseases

Your eyes were full of regret

And then you took a picture of your salad

And put it on the Internet

And she said, "I've been so worried about you lately

You look shit and you smell a bit

You're mad thinking you could ever save me

Not looking like that"

You used to have a face straight out of a magazine

Now you just look like anyone

I just had a change of heart

I feel as though I was deceived

I never found love in the city

I just sat in self-pity and cried in the car

Oh, I just had a change of heart

Then she said, "I've been so worried 'bout you lately

You were fit, but you're losing it

You played a part, 'this is how it starts'"

Oh, I just had a change of heart

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I just had a change of heart

I just had a change of heart

I just had a change of heart

Oh, I just had a change of heart

I just had a change of heart

I just had a change of heart

I just had a change of heart

I just had a change of heart

## Personnel

* **Programmer:** George Daniel, Mike Crossey, Jonathan Gilmore
* **Mixing Engineer:** Mike Crossey
* **Video Director:** Tim Mattia
* **Mastering Engineer:** Chris Gehringer
* **Engineer:** Jonathan Gilmore
* **Keyboard:** Ross MacDonald
* **Backup Vocals:** Ross MacDonald, George Daniel
* **Released by:** Interscope Records, Dirty Hit
* **Composition:** George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross MacDonald, and Adam Hann
* **Guitar:** Adam Hann
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy
* **Synthesizer:** George Daniel
* **Drums:** George Daniel

## References

1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03kcc0d