Jessica Pratt (born 1987) is an American musician and singer-songwriter, ba… Read Full Bio ↴Jessica Pratt (born 1987) is an American musician and singer-songwriter, based in Los Angeles, California. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2011 via Birth Records, a record label founded by Darker My Love and White Fence songwriter Tim Presley to release Pratt's music. She is often associated with the freak folk movement.

Pratt was raised by her mother, who exposed her to a broad range of artists, including Tim Buckley, X, and the Gun Club. She learned to play the guitar around the age of 15, after her older brother gave up playing his Stratocaster. She took his guitar and started practising with the T. Rex album, Electric Warrior. She was soon able to play the guitar parts of the whole record. She eventually began recording songs at the age of 16, using her mother's Fender guitar amp and microphone.

After she moved to San Francisco, she was introduced to Tim Presley's solo project, White Fence, through Presley's brother, who was her roommate for three years. In the following years, Presley heard Pratt's demo songs through her then-boyfriend, who had posted her songs on Facebook. He eventually contacted her to release her music.

Pratt's self-titled debut album was released in 2012 through Presley's label, Birth Records. Produced by Craig Gotsill, the album featured the songs that were originally recorded in 2007 over analogue tape. The initial 500 pressings of the sold out in less than two weeks. It received attention from many music websites and magazines, including Pitchfork (website), Consequence of Sound[3] and PopMatters.

In January 2014, she revealed the studio version of a new track, "Game That I Play."

In October 2014, Pratt announced her sophomore album, On Your Own Love Again.

In October 2018, she announced her third album, Quiet Signs, and released a video for a new track, "This Time Around." Pitchfork reviewed the song, giving it the Best New Music designation and noting a stylistic shift, comparing it to "a Tropicalia version of a Christmas song, or a ’60s jukebox standard playing in a beach town diner during the off-season."

According to Philip Cosores of Consequence of Sound, Pratt's music "displays a lyrical and musical range without straying from a palette of picked acoustic guitar and raw, bending vocals" and nods to "60′s folk, California classic rock, and the early 2000′s freak folk." She is compared to various folk artists, including Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Sibylle Baier, David Crosby and Karen Dalton. She also expressed admiration for Ariel Pink.

Wrong Hand
Jessica Pratt Lyrics

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So you're running 'round the world
With your head above the ground
And you're dancing too close behind
To the darling in a hidden shroud
And you don't know how you got here before
You were dancing with the wrong hand

Wandering in dreams I had before

And they play in my mind
I see you standing wasted alone
In my mind, in my mind

So you're running 'round the world
With your head above the ground
And you're dancing too close behind
To the darling in a hidden shroud
And you don't know how you got here before
You were dancing with the wrong hand

Wandering in dreams I had before
And they play in my mind

I see you standing wasted alone
In my mind, in my mind

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Jessica Pratt's "Wrong Hand" seem to be about a person who is lost and unsure of themselves in a relationship. The title itself, "Wrong Hand," suggests that the person is dancing with the wrong partner or doing something incorrectly. The lyrics also suggest that this person is wandering in their dreams and seeing things from their past play out in their mind.

The first verse talks about the person "running 'round the world" and dancing too close behind someone else. This suggests that they are following someone else's lead instead of being true to themselves. The line "And you don't know how you got here before" suggests that this person is not sure how they ended up in this situation, and that they may have made some poor choices in the past.

The second verse repeats the idea of the person wandering in their dreams and seeing things from their past. The line "I see you standing wasted alone" suggests that this person may have been hurt in the past by someone they trusted.

Overall, the song seems to be about a person who is struggling to find their place in a relationship and may be dealing with some past emotional trauma. It's a contemplative, introspective piece that invites the listener to reflect on their own experiences with relationships and self-discovery.

Line by Line Meaning

So you're running 'round the world
You seem to be moving around aimlessly

With your head above the ground
You seem to be ignoring the world around you, lost in your own world

And you're dancing too close behind
You are dangerously following someone without much thought

To the darling in a hidden shroud
You are blindly following someone who is hiding something from you

And you don't know how you got here before
You don't understand the cause and effect of your current situation

You were dancing with the wrong hand
You were doing something in the wrong way, which has led you to where you are now

Wandering in dreams I had before
Thinking about past experiences which come to mind

And they play in my mind
Replaying old memories brings them back to the forefront of thoughts

I see you standing wasted alone
The memory of someone else being alone and not present is being relived

In my mind, in my mind
This is not real but rather it's a visualized memory that's being replayed in the mind

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Written by: JESSICA PRATT

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