Head in the Clouds (song)

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"Head in the Clouds"
Single by Gerry Cinnamon
from the album The Bonny
Released13 April 2020
Length3:53
Label Little Runaway Records
Songwriter(s) Gerry Cinnamon
Gerry Cinnamon singles chronology
"Where We're Going"
(2020)
"Head in the Clouds"
(2020)

"Head in the Clouds" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist Gerry Cinnamon. It was released as a single on 13 April 2020 by Little Runaway Records as the sixth single from his second studio album The Bonny .

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Background

Talking about the song, Gerry Cinnamon said it "kinda documents my nightly battles with insomnia where every few weeks everything goes tits up, as it would for most folk if they didn’t sleep for three days, but there is also a loose narrative of a kinda love story." [1] [2] [3]

Charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) [4] 60
Scotland (OCC) [5] 30
UK Singles (OCC) [6] 65

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom14 April 2020Little Runaway

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References

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