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"Heavy Balloon" is the ninth track from Fiona Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters.
In an interview with Vulture, Fiona explains:
"The imagery of this song came to me years ago, because a boyfriend of mine was talking to me about his father and his depression. The way he was describing his father moving around the house being weighed down by something made me think, 'We're just always trying to keep it up; oh my God, this is not staying off me long enough, I just can't really move around'. It's this hindrance, this obligation, this constant thing to be taken care of."
On the line "I spread like strawberries, I climb like peas and beans":
"I got that out of a children's gardening book. Because strawberries are rhizomes, and so they grow in this network sideways, and peas and beans, they climb up, you can put them on trellises and stuff. I'm sure they probably grow other ways too, but that was just a little fact I thought was very, very cute. And uplifting, and like, 'I'm all right, it's okay, don't worry about me. I'm like strawberries, I'm going to spread myself out and take over this whole garden'."
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