The track is the hotly-tipped emerging artist’s first release of 2022.
Eden Rain is an artist who has firmly established herself on our radar with her emotive and distinctive brand of left-of-centre pop. Characterised by her gorgeous and powerful vocals and intricate, engaging songwriting, Eden has all of the hallmarks of an artist that is destined for loftier things.
The latest release from the artist is the effortlessly stirring ‘Text Me When You’re Home Safe’, a track anchored by the artist’s thoughtful writing and quietly commanding vocals. There is a tinge of sadness within the lyrics and the unfortunate cultural relevance of having to ask people, especially women, to confirm that they’re home safe and without incident. Eden is at her best when she is allowed to explore her thoughts and feelings through her work, and there is something incredibly raw and effortless about the way that she writes and encapsulates a certain mood and vibe.
“I wrote ‘Text Me When You’re Home Safe’, in the summer of 2020.” Eden says of the track. “Sometimes songs you write become less and less relevant as your life moves on and your world changes but this song only ever became more relevant to me. I originally wrote it about my friend, never knowing where home was as she always moved a lot as a child and as she was always bouncing from place to place. I combined with the phrase that we have been saying to eachother and all our other friends since we were 15- ‘text me when your home safe’. Unfortunately, most women and girls know the importance of a ‘home safe’ text, and although this song started as a song for my best friends, after recent cases in the news and moving out of my family home and to london on my own, it sadly felt more relevant and important to release it than ever. There’s a lot of other feelings tied up in the song for me, so it’s hard to pinpoint an exact meaning, but I wouldn’t want to either- I hope whoever listens to it draws their own associations and it reminds them of their own people that they love.”
