Take a Breath
Little Hug sleep-paralysis song: voodoo on the bed, demons on the chest: take another breath, it's all in your head, then Goku's nimbus over Cardiff.
Listen: SpotifyApple Music
ISRC QZMEM2082677 (soundexchange)
Track six on Little Hug (April 2021), also a 2020 standalone single ahead of the EP (Where the Music Meets); on Vinyl Moon, Volume 066 compilation per MusicBrainz catalog note. Luke solo.
It opens inside sleep paralysis: pinned down to my bed / like some kinda voodoo, demons on the chest, ooo the only sound a frozen body can make. Against that, the title runs as a wellness script that can’t quite land: take another breath / it’s all in your head / don’t worry ‘bout a day dream. Same failed-instruction logic as Don’t Worry on Big Hug a few months later, except here the command is survival, not satire. The body just loops between freeze and collapse (I’m petrified and falling into my bed / I’m terrified and waiting), and the middle break names the worst of it: my body is no longer mine to live in.
Then the escape hatch: I fly on the back of Goku’s nimbus / I’m soaring above the shores of Cardiff. Dragon Ball $d cartoon flight dropped over Wales, one image rather than a lore dump. (Goku’s cloud is itself a borrowing, the somersault cloud Sun Wukong rides in Journey to the West.) No cure follows, only the hook repeated as practice. Little Hug’s body-panic track, before the record learns to joke again (Can’t Imagine Feeling Better).
Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp.
Lyrics
Pinned down to my bed Like some kinda voodoo Ooo Dark visions of demons Weighing on my chest I can't bear it Take another breath It's all in your head Don't worry 'bout a day dream I'm petrified And falling into my bed I'm terrified and waiting Take another breath Yeah take another breath Take another All that I can do is panic or give in My body is no longer mine to live in Fall free Take another breath It's all in your head Don't worry 'bout a day dream I'm petrified And falling into my bed I'm terrified and waiting Take another breath Yeah take another breath Take another Take another breath Take it Take another breath Take it Yeah take another breath Take it I fly on the back of Goku's nimbus Ooo I'm soaring above the shores of Cardiff Fly fly Take another breath It's all in your head Don't worry 'bout a day dream I'm petrified And falling into my bed Terrified and waiting Take another breath It's all in your head Don't worry 'bout a day dream I'm petrified And falling into my bed I'm terrified and waiting Take another breath Yeah take another breath Take another Take another breath Take another breath