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Arguably the only happy song on Sweetlove’s new EP, GOODNIGHT, LOVER, opening song “Devil on Your Shoulder,” urges self-acceptance with heartwarming confidence. “It was a crazy, rainy day, and my co-writer Jay Stolar and I decided that we wanted to attempt to write something about being brave in honor of someone’s memory,” Sweetlove says. “It’s sounds so cliché to say it out loud, but when you lose people that you love so dearly, it makes you want to stop being afraid to live your life and embrace the parts of you that don’t want to do what they’re told, especially when you’re the one who’s been doing the telling.”
Searching and almost hopeful in the midst of the wreckage, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is a song about wishes for outrunning demons and time. Sweetlove wrote the song with Zach Berkman/The Heart Of (Ron Pope). “I came into the write with Zach with the idea of wanting to send Matt (Sweetlove’s oldest friend who had recently passed away) off to someplace better,” she says. “Whatever happens after we pass, I do believe we aren’t our bodies. I believe he’s somewhere –– I don’t know where. But I believe he’s at peace, at last.”
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