NEW SINGLE RELEASE
Bow Anderson - 12 Minute Walk
26-year-old singer-songwriter, Bow Anderson, has released new single ‘12 Minute Walk’, a deeply moving ballad, which highlights the anxieties of walking alone at night. Throughout the track, Anderson voices the anxieties and very real dangers that can befall people who are simply walking home.
The lyrics of ‘12 Minute Walk’ paint vivid images, as the listener is taken on Anderson’s walk back home after a night out. The emotive storytelling of this song is accompanied by a melancholic piano that is enhanced by the emotion of Anderson’s vocal tone.
The song begins with the explanation that “it has happened again, to a friend of a friend”, and although never explicitly detailed, the listener understands the weight of what has occurred. The dark timbre of the piano notes echoes this, as Anderson has the painful realisation that it “coulda so easily been me”. The lyrics then unfold into more detail, describing the necessity of becoming more alert to your surroundings and the anxiety felt whenever footsteps are heard. Anderson concludes this verse with “you wouldn’t believe the things I’ve seen”, cementing that these concerns are not unfounded.
Anderson continues to sing of relatable experiences, such as not having enough money to get a taxi home, and drunkenly thinking that it will be fine to walk but regretting this decision almost immediately. The image of Anderson’s knuckles going white around their keys and covering up their legs to avoid “riskin’ it” during this short walk home is undoubtedly an experience many can connect with.
The repeated pre-chorus, “A 12-minute walk isn’t long but it’s long enough”, provides a very powerful message to the listener and provides the perfect foundation for the raw chorus which follows. The powerful message of this song is perhaps best summed up when Anderson sings, “Cause we've all heard the horror stories” and closing with “it’s better to be safe than sorry”.
Listening to this song is a highly profound experience, particularly when Anderson closes the song with layering of female voices, captured from phone conversations, telling their friends and family to get home safe and text when they’re back. It is a very powerful end to this beautiful song which sheds light on this overlooked but almost universal situation.
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