Exposing the fragility of the human heart, mind, and soul through lyrics and music is what I have loved most about discovering Ren’s music.
His song “Hi Ren” had me in tears when I first listened to it and the tears still hug my eyes when I hear his lyric, “…some people know me as hope. Some people know me as the voice that you hear when you loosen the noose on the rope…”
Ren further loosens the noose with his heartbreaking and beautiful song, “Suic*de”.
On his socials, Ren wrote that this was a song that he had been sitting on and that it had always felt incomplete. He said initially the song was not going to be about his dear friend Joe’s suicide, but the words fell out of him. Instead of perfecting each line, he allowed himself to record every line as it came with the torrent of tears.
As a person who battles mental demons and has thought about suicide, “Suic*de” sent chills through my soul. His line, “…It’s hard to take off from the ground when your wings are cut, Your stomach burns when you’re drinking from an empty cup, You know the entire ocean came from my tear ducts? I see the world through fibonacci sequences and Double Dutch…” were words that I describe what I felt in my 20’s.
Ren has captured the loneliness, the darkness, the grip that mental demons have on one’s soul and in capturing those feelings and emotions, he has provided a light at the end of the tunnel to let others know that suicide is never the answer. There is always hope.
Ren is fundraising for The Anglesey RNLI. To support the search and rescue services, visit Ren’s fundraising page at Just Giving.
Watch “Suic*de” below
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