Discover the story of the song > Smashed Birds – Sóley

The protagonist is walking on a road and finds notes about her past. She grabs one and puts it in her pocket. She then goes to her partner's house and asks a tree to let her in. In the basement, she finds a letter her partner wrote when they were married and puts it in her mouth. She takes all of her partner's words, eats them by the fire, tears pages off the letter and makes a dress. She goes to her partner's garden and tells the trees and bees to fly away with his words and birds. Then she dances with the birds she smashed all night and in the morning, she climbs a tree and flies away.