This is connected to my song ‘No Love Dying.’ It’s thinking of the power, the drug, the beauty and the trance that love can be. Whatever it is, it’s the best thing that we have. It’s about the willingness to go through the consequences of love. Whatever I have to do to get it, give me more of it. If love is overrated, if love is cliché or tired, then give it to me. Even if it’s unrequited, even if it’s unpronounced. It moves you. The lyrics say, ‘Let me fall on my face/I like this strange illusion.’ Here, I’m using also different parts of my voice, and there’s an intimacy that I’m trying to capture. Sometimes I want subtlety. Think of Miles Davis—he was good at that. Sometimes that’s not allowed with an instrument that can sound as big as a trumpet. The voice of the big Black man can also be a huge instrument, and sometimes not allowed to be subtle and nuanced and gentle. And so when I do that, it’s purposeful for two reasons. One, it’s my personality, and two, I’m trying to bring it back and bring the voice into an intimate space and place.

– Gregory Porter via Apple Music