East London’s Tiana Major9 captures raw heartache with undeniable grace and passion in new song “alone,” a soul-baring, sweepingly seductive, and breathtakingly beautiful rejection of bad love.
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Used to think you were the cure; what’s the point in trying more? Love don’t live in here no more…
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There’s no easy way to express the enormous weight and pain of leaving someone you love.
Still, Tiana Major9 captures that raw heartache with undeniable grace in “alone,” their first standalone release in over two years’ time.
You’re someone
That changes their mind
So easily
I’m the one who’s up at night
Wondering
You make time
For what you want
I guess it’s not me
I’ve run out of tears to cry
And you ain’t sorry
Don’t know why I love you
You ain’t doing nothing for me
Make it make sense
I’m just a fool for your love
Hard to get past what you did
can’t pretend no more
Change? You will never
You just do whatever you want
And I let ya, but I deserve better
I’m done giving up
Way too much
Come and get your stuff
Released November 11 via +1 Records, “alone” is a soulful, sweepingly seductive, and breathtakingly beautiful baring of an unbearably heavy heart. Maybe your special someone has changed for the worse, and they’re no longer the person you fell in love with; or maybe they’ve finally shown you their true colors; just as love is love, heartbreak is heartbreak, and at some painful point, you can’t go on with the letdowns and disappointments.
If you’re “better off alone,” as Tiana Major9 sings so passionately in their chorus, then it’s too late for “sorry” or “I’ll do better next time.”
Used to think you were the cure
What’s the point in trying more?
Love don’t live in here no more
No more
I think I’m better off alone
I think I’m better off alone
Can’t turn this house into a home
I think I’m better off alone
Tiana Major9’s stunning golden vocals take center stage throughout “alone” as they passionately, powerfully spill their guts.
Their lyrics paint a vivid, vulnerable story of emotional wounds turned into emotional scars as promises were broken and hopes were dashed opened again and again:
Misery’s a friend of mine
It loves company
Memories in my mind
Just repeat
Broke my heart several times
I still didn’t leave
I stood right there by your side
Stupidly
Don’t know why I love you
You ain’t doing nothing for me
Make it make sense
I’m just a fool for your love
Hard to get past what you did
can’t pretend no more
Change? You will never
You just do whatever you want
And I let ya, but I deserve better
I’m done giving up
Way too much
Come and get your stuff
“‘alone’ is such a vulnerable offering to the world, through the lyrics, my vocal performance,” Tiana Major9, born Tiana Thomas-Ambersley, tells Atwood Magazine.
“It feels like a re-introduction to Tiana Major9 and an exclusive look into the world of TM9.”
The one benefit of the disillusionment we hear in “alone” is that the narrator can finally start healing; and with that healing comes the opportunity to try and love again.
Hearts are resilient muscles; they ache constantly, yet they remain stalwart and strong. Even when they break, they mend – but “alone” isn’t a song about the mending; it’s a song about a heart breaking and a love dying, and when you’re in it, there’s nothing worse.
Tiana Major9 embodies that carnage with soul-stirring finesse, inviting us deep into their inner sanctum as they finally cut themself loose, breaking free from a bad love so they can someday find the good one.
Used to think you were the cure
What’s the point in trying more?
Love don’t live in here no more
No more
I think I’m better off alone
I think I’m better off alone
Can’t turn this house into a home
I think I’m better off alone
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