About the songs: These two songs are about the same thing, love. The artist couldn’t decide which song to release first so he decided to launch both at the same time. “Take This Heart” and “The Way That You Kiss” are two sides of the same coin and which comes first depends on how you flip it.

The yin and yang plot of love.

Falling in love feels like a new beginning because that’s what it is. When you fall in love for the first time, you get to meet yourself for the first time in your life. “The Way That You Kiss” defines those feelings and vulnerability. The singer carries you through falling in love. You experience emotions and thoughts you never believe existed within you. At least, not before falling in love.

When you fail to keep the love alive, things shades and your view of love is a few shades darker. Yet that is the paradoxical contrast of falling in love! 

There is ugliness with beauty. There is darkness with light. There is pain with pleasure. There is death when there is life.

“Take This Heart” is a sober love song. It speaks about endings, moving on and resignation for what was isn’t there anymore. It hurts to think that the love of your life, your world, isn’t what you believed it to be. It hurts to even think that everything that you’ve believed to be true may have all been in your imagination. The life you’ve begun is about to end and a newer, darker version of you takes form. It may hurt but you can’t stop yourself from giving it another shot.

Fans of songwriters like Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Waylon Jennings might want to give this a listen.