Growing Pains

Album: Beautiful Lies (2016)
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  • The opening track of Beautiful Lies, this is announced with a clanging gong. The song is one of several tunes on the record that has an oriental vibe. Birdy explained to The Sun: "Making this album I read the book Memoirs of a Geisha. I've never been to Japan but the book took me there with its beautiful imagery. I fell in love with the culture."

    "The story is about a girl who is ripped away from her parents and the countryside to become a geisha. She grows up in a hard and alien world where she learns to be strong and stand on her own – and that resonated with me."

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