You and Your Heart

Album: To The Sea (2010)
Charted: 20
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the first single from Hawaiian singer-songwriter Jack Johnson's fifth studio album, To The Sea.
  • Johnson told MTV News: "[That song] started off with this guitar riff that I had around for a while, actually had it on the last record, and we liked it, but we didn't have any words for it yet, nothing came natural, so I didn't use it. And at some point, some of the books I was reading started leading me in a certain direction, kind of like this broken king character. That area you get in sometimes, where you stop trusting your heart and you start thinking too much about logic and this and that. So it's basically about that separation that can happen between the self and the heart and trying to trust your heart again."
  • Johnson directed the song's music video, which features the singer surfing and floating in the ocean as waves swoop around him. "I was looking at the camera singing and I can't figure out when the wave's going to hit me from behind," he told Billboard magazine. "That was fun to do. It was a physical challenge."

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