Singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy winner Delilah Montagu shares “Orange,” a patiently unfolding benediction that finds peace and closure in a mismatched relationship. As the song’s gentle momentum builds, Delilah recounts a flood of memories — odd tattoos, magical pets, the colour preferences of parents — with poetic economy and a generous, empathetic delivery. It’s that rare beast: a gracious breakup song.
Says Delilah: “I wrote ‘Orange’ about my first love. Loving someone but also understanding that you can’t exist in each other’s worlds is a painful realization, and I tried to put it into a song. ‘I was a bird, and you were a fish, we couldn’t breathe together like this.’ The song is also about reassuring the person that even though you don’t ever talk, you’re always thinking of them with love and that they will always be with you everywhere you go.”
Created by Delilah alongside director and artist Peter Cerrito, the “Orange” music video captures the uncomfortable intimacy of a breakup — as well as that feeling of freedom and expanding horizons that comes when you allow yourself to be vulnerable and share your true feelings.
“Orange” appears on Delilah’s new EP entitled “The Bird”, due out June 14th. The first in a series of upcoming releases, “The Bird” showcases Delilah’s pairing of vulnerable reckonings and symphonic, sumptuous soundworlds.
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