Greetings,
Emily Barker just released Unpaid Bill, check it out here.
“My song Unpaid Bill is now on Bandcamp for all those who have been asking...
As always, thank you for your support!
Emily x”
Emily says:
Our senses, our brains are wired to create connections with artifacts. Look around your home. Certain objects might link to a powerful emotion like love, jealousy, anger and to certain relationships like with a friend, a parent, grandparent, etc.
There’s so much symbolism in the day-to-day. Sometimes it’s spooky. For instance, one of a pair of coffee cups breaking shortly after your partner leaves you. Or receiving a bill in the post addressed in their name.
Like ‘White Geraniums’, this song is about sitting in grief: “The chair tells me to sit and wait”. It’s about realising that grief, shock, anger is going to take a while to shift. That the mending will move through phases, morph in that “two steps forward, one step back” kind of way. And that despite wanting an easy, quick way out, time will do the heaviest lifting of heartbreak.
I recorded this song, and ‘White Geraniums’ with producer, Luke Potashnick at The Wool Hall in Beckington, Somerset along with some awesome musicians, most of whom were on the ‘Fragile as Humans’ album.
There’s so much symbolism in the day-to-day. Sometimes it’s spooky. For instance, one of a pair of coffee cups breaking shortly after your partner leaves you. Or receiving a bill in the post addressed in their name.
Like ‘White Geraniums’, this song is about sitting in grief: “The chair tells me to sit and wait”. It’s about realising that grief, shock, anger is going to take a while to shift. That the mending will move through phases, morph in that “two steps forward, one step back” kind of way. And that despite wanting an easy, quick way out, time will do the heaviest lifting of heartbreak.
I recorded this song, and ‘White Geraniums’ with producer, Luke Potashnick at The Wool Hall in Beckington, Somerset along with some awesome musicians, most of whom were on the ‘Fragile as Humans’ album.
lyrics
You were somewhere else when I woke up
far from together
Crack in a matching coffee cup
spilt, spelt forever
Morning thick as a winter’s coat
holding back the weather
Want a two-shot, short cut, brighter note
brand-new treasure
Light on the front porch is broken
An unpaid bill in your name
Doors to different rooms won’t open
The chair tells me to sit and wait
Ticket to the edge of the open lake
deep decompression
Can’t help but wish for another take
loss as a lesson
No way back to what began
no further direction
Wanna skim read, high-speed, understand
give me a second
Light on the front porch is broken
An unpaid bill in your name
Doors to different rooms won’t open
The chair tells me to sit and wait
You were somewhere else when I woke up
far from together
Crack in a matching coffee cup
spilt, spelt forever
far from together
Crack in a matching coffee cup
spilt, spelt forever
Morning thick as a winter’s coat
holding back the weather
Want a two-shot, short cut, brighter note
brand-new treasure
Light on the front porch is broken
An unpaid bill in your name
Doors to different rooms won’t open
The chair tells me to sit and wait
Ticket to the edge of the open lake
deep decompression
Can’t help but wish for another take
loss as a lesson
No way back to what began
no further direction
Wanna skim read, high-speed, understand
give me a second
Light on the front porch is broken
An unpaid bill in your name
Doors to different rooms won’t open
The chair tells me to sit and wait
You were somewhere else when I woke up
far from together
Crack in a matching coffee cup
spilt, spelt forever
credits
released June 24, 2026
Emily Barker - lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Tim Harries - double bass
Luke Potashnick - keyboards
Richard Causon - keyboards
Dave Smith - drums
Produced by Luke Potashnick
Mixed by Luke Potashnick
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Recorded at The Wool Hall
license
all rights reserved
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