"Heavy Balloon" is the ninth track from Fiona Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters. In an interview with Vulture, Fiona explains: "The imagery of this song came to me years ago, because a boyfriend of mine was talking to me about his father and his depression. The way he was describing his father moving around the house being weighed down by something made me think, 'We're just always trying to keep it up; oh my God, this is not staying off me long enough, I just can't really move around'.

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