Guide
Yorkshire-based folk musician Billie Marten serenades my ears with her new single, “Feeling”. This heartfelt folk ballad is the perfect spring offering as I listen with flowers in full bloom outside my window. I almost get whisked away to paradise with the charming sounds in the mix greeting my ears like a warm breeze whispering through summer leaves.
Song Analysis (Billie Marten)
“Feeling” came out on the 19th of March via Fiction Records and it was produced by Phil Weinrobe. It starts with a gripping guitar introduction performed by Núria Graham. Billie Marten soon emerges with her angelic vocal style towering over the folky backdrop made up of textured acoustic guitar strums and a shuffling drum rhythm.
Billie Marten – “Feeling” Lyrics
Verse 1
Sweep the leaves and cut the air
Find a secret hanging there
You are hiding at the top of the stairs
Where you can be alone
Verse 2
Drawing roads into the sand
Falling deep into your hands
Barely grown enough to stand
And looking up at you
Chorus
And you look so good
And you look so clean
I am on my way, hey, hey
I am in between feeling
Feeling
Verse 3
We are oh so lightly here
Softer than a rabbit ear
Watch me as I disappear
Into the great unknown
Chorus
And you look so good
And you are so clean
I am on my way, hey, hey
I am barely breathing
Into the feeling
Into the feeling
Meaning (My Opinion)
It is a sentimental track all about fleeting moments, nostalgia, and the emotional limbo between childhood and adulthood; something all of us have to experience. From sweeping leaves to creating highways in the sand, the lyrics vividly depict peaceful introspection—from which wistful memory is evoked. There is a constant motif of loneliness. Also, the song conveys a yearning to connect while also acknowledging the inevitability of change, reflected in lines about standing on the cusp of growth and looking up to someone who once seemed larger than life.
The chorus shifts into a more immediate emotional state, centering on perception and presence—how someone appears “so good” and “so clean,” perhaps symbolizing an idealized version of another person or a past self. The repetition of “feeling” suggests an attempt to grasp something intangible, whether it be love, clarity, or a sense of belonging. The final verse, with its imagery of disappearing “into the great unknown,” further cements the song’s meditation on impermanence and transition. For me, Marten’s folk-inspired songwriting captures the quiet beauty of in-between spaces.
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