Lovejoy Sink Into A Depression On New Song “The Fall”

Last Thursday, British indie rockers Lovejoy dropped their sophomore EP, Pebble Brain, and since then, the project’s songs have continued to dominate the Genius Top Songs chart. Holding steady in Genius’s top three is “The Fall,” the sixth track on the EP. The song is credited to YouTube star and Lovejoy lead singer Wilbur Soot—aka William Gold—with bandmates Joe Goldsmith, Ash Kabosu, and Mark Boardman playing guitar, bass, and drums, respectively. Sam Coveney handled production.

“The Fall” follows someone’s descent into depression. In the song’s opening verse, Soot sings about the desire for a better life—one outside of his sink estate, or British council estate, a type of housing associated with high levels of socio-economic destitution.

There must be more to this
So leave those sink estates and let’s book a holiday

In the pre-chorus, Soot comments on people’s tendencies to keep comfortable distances from those who are facing hardships. He seemingly references The Ramblers, or Ramblers Association, a charity organization whose mission is to preserve recreational walking paths along Britain’s countryside.

And the ramblers will say
“It’s got a marvelous view”
But we don’t know how many lives it took, no
They’ll never know what you knew

In the second verse, Soot has upgraded to a life of luxury.

We’ve got a country house now, old dog has been put down now
Oh, it’s nice to be around trees
Custom license plate on our Audi R8

Still, he faces the same internal struggles. He turns to medication to cure his depression but still feels his life is lacking.

Under the weight of some Sertraline
A couple Prozacs and now I’m pumping dopamine
There must be more to this

Feeling no way out, Soot falls back into a depression on the song’s final verse.

I would do something if it wasn’t all so effort-full
’Cause I’m so high my brain can’t even look at the fall
And when you’ve reached the top, there’s nowhere else to go but…

Pebble Brain arrives less than a year after Lovejoy’s debut four-track EP, Are You Alright? Upon its release, Pebble Brain debuted at #2 on Spotify’s Top UK Album Debuts chart, amassing over 17 million streams on the platform to date.

You can read all the lyrics to “The Fall” on Genius now.