The title
In the first months of mourning, Liz found it hard to sleep and was often awake in the quiet of the night.
The elephant
A lyric from ‘Yves Blue’, “put on the blindfold / an elephant on a ball”, became the cover, drawn by Liz’s aunt.
The sound
The songs began simply, often as just a vocal, then fleshed out on the nylon-stringed guitar Liz has had since she was ten.
The ending
‘Thank God For You’ came to Liz on the drive home from a counselling session, sung into her phone as a voice note. Rae Morris plays piano on the finished track.
