When Gracie Huffman came up with the chorus for Lighthearted’s newly released single, “Borrowed,” she didn’t know if there was anything there. So, she turned to her twin sister and bandmate, Eliza Lemmon, for some advice.
“She sent me a voicemail and was like ‘I don’t know about this, let me know what you think,’” Lemmon said. “And I let it sit for a while, and it just kept getting stuck in my head.”
Huffman writes most of the songs for Lighthearted, the band she started with her twin sister Lemmon. Huffman started exploring themes of loss and permanence as she crafted “Borrowed,” calling upon images of the rising and setting sun or ebbing tide. She wanted to capture the feeling of “always saying goodbye” as she and her sister sang over a melodic guitar track…