“She Lays Down” speaks of the postnatal depression frontman Matty Healy’s mother experienced after his birth. It’s the closing track on The 1975’s sophomore album, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It. In a track by track review, NME described “She Lays Down” as: "[…] a totally acoustic song, and the mood stays just as low as before. Over fingerpicked arpeggios, the frontman sings about his mother’s postnatal depression […].

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