It could be easy to assume that a song with the title “Bottle By My Bed” would reveal the story of someone dealing with alcoholism, but Texas’ Sunny Sweeney introduces the listener a different personal hell: the inability for her and her husband to become parents. A track off her most recent and best album to date, Trophy, “Bottle By My Bed” discusses a situation that many couples experience in the darkness, witnessing other friends and relatives have babies and constantly being asked “when is your time?” or, even worse, just figuring that they are having too much fun without the ties of parenthood.
The recently released music video makes the emptiness she and her husband palpable. She sits on the staircase playing guitar, taking glances at the “empty room at the top of the stairs.” She, her husband, and their dog watch TV on the couch together. She sits in the back of a limo, alone, on the way to her next gig. All the long this black cloud of loneliness looms while shots of children and families are cut into the video in contrast to what Sweeney and her husband experience.
Parent or not, one cannot fight the emotional feeling of what this couple longs for but cannot attain currently – “We wait, we wait. It’ll be our turn someday.”
Watch the heartfelt video below:
For more information on Sunny Sweeney, visit: www.sunnysweeney.com.