Heavy in Your Arms

"Heavy in Your Arms" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. It was released on 14 November 2010 as the third single from the soundtrack of the 2010 film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The track was written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, with production handled by the latter. The song is a gothic rock ballad that has inspirations from hip hop and gospel music. Lyrically, the song is about "the weight of love and how sometimes it can be a burden between two people". The track was also featured in some of the band's later works. The song received widespread critical acclaim, praising its musical style, lyricism, and Welch's vocal performance. A music video was released on 7 July 2010 and was directed by Tom Beard and Tabitha Denholm. The black and white video shows Welch being carried by a man while she sings the song. The single entered the top 100 charts in Scotland and the United Kingdom. Florence and the Machine performed the track live on several occasions, and was covered by American singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson. Background and release The song was co-written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, with the latter handling the production of the track. "Heavy in Your Arms" was first included in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack, released on 8 June 2010. In an interview with The Independent, Welch told she wanted to be involved in the soundtrack because she "thought it would be something fun to do; I'd never written a song for a soundtrack before. It's an interesting exercise as a songwriter. [The soundtrack team] didn't specifically say what bit of the movie it was going to be in or anything, but they did say it should have nothing about vampires or werewolves in it. I don't think they wanted anything with specific references to the story; it's not a musical, opera type thing – they just wanted something that fitted the emotional tone of it. I just thought about some of the themes in the book and wrote the song." "Heavy in Your Arms" was released as the third and final single from the film's soundtrack on 14 November 2010, and was later added to the tracklist of the reissue of the band's debut album Lungs (2009), titled Between Two Lungs (2010). The track was also included on the digital EP, Lungs: The B-Sides (2011).