A review of the album Abysskiss from Pitchfork states, “You don’t hear the savagery at first. It takes several listens before the delicate fingerpicking and the whisper of her voice turns dark. Her lyrics accrete alarming imagery in quick clumps, in the “little red flower on your wrist” on “blue and red horses,” or the “sharp glass loosing of your best friend” on “what can you say.” The characters in her songs always seem one wrong step away from leaking blood or spilling someone else’s. The more time you spend cocking an ear to her music, the more foreboding her world seems, the more likely it will end in pain.”

In coherence with many of the album’s songs themes of death and rebirth, it’s very likely this song is about death as well, and specifically suicide. Blue and red are the colors of sirens blaring during an emergency, there is an urgent reason an “angel” should get there soon, and there is a “little red forest” in the subject’s room. The nursery rhyme style of the song contrasts and deepens the disturbing nature of the theme.

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Adrianne Lenker: abysskiss — Pitchfork

Adrianne Lenker dies within two minutes of her solo record abysskiss. It is not a dramatic passing. Over feather-light fingerpicking, she simply sings, "See my death become a trail/And the trail leads to a flower." Her voice is sweet, the tone muted, nothing but her breath and guitar strings.