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“Nana” is the emotional, acoustic track which serves as the penultimate song from I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it. The track details Matty’s struggle with coming to terms with the passing of his grandmother, Annie.
This would ordinarily be the album’s tearjerker anyway, best listened to with a bumper box of tissues within arm’s reach, no matter what song it followed. But given ‘Paris’‘ effect, it’s made even more intense. Matty sings about the death of his grandma over acoustic guitar and soft keys, reminiscing on their times together and imagining what he’d tell her if she walked into the room.
There’s a return to his questioning of religion, trying to give himself some comfort (“I know that God doesn’t exist, and all the palaver surrounding it/But I like to think that you can hear me sometimes”), but the most heartbreaking bit comes right at the end when the music starts to dim and he croaks “I’m bereft, you see/I think you can tell/I haven’t been doing too well.”
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