Til My Heart Stops (2025) – The Beths

I’ve been looking forward to presenting another song from this talented New Zealand indie rock band The Beths. I was just singing their praises the other day here. They’re proof there’s still plenty of good music coming out these days. A no-nonsense, quality band – much like the Canadian group Alvvays – they present themselves like regular people. In fact, they’ve cited Alvvays as one of their influences.

You can tell they love what they do. They simply make great music: relatable songs with sincere, unambiguous writing. By all accounts, they’re also a good live band and will be touring the U.S. over the next couple of months.

Today’s featured track, Til My Heart Stops, comes from their latest album Straight Line Was a Lie (2025). It’s a serene and gentle, yet bright song, and vocalist Elizabeth Stokes does a lovely job here – easing into it before letting it open up.

The music video is beautifully shot and reflects the song’s sense of longing – something as simple as riding endless circles around a basketball court, like a kid would do. I like the familiarity and homeliness of not just their music, but also their crafty videos, as you can see here and in another song I just love – Expert in a Dying Field.

Elizabeth had this to say about the song (via Apple Music):

‘It’s a very yearning song. I quite often feel like I push people away. It’s very easy to isolate yourself, especially if you’re feeling a bit weird and you can put walls up between you and other people: people that I love, people that I know well, people I wish I knew better. But there is this real desire to be a part of the world and be close with other people and to not have that. The euphoria I want to experience is there at the end of the song, but you have to fight to get to it‘.

The Beths formed at the University of Auckland in 2014, where the members studied jazz. Stokes has said she named the band after herself, inspired by the Gilmore Girls character Lorelai Gilmore naming her daughter after herself. They’ve since released four records. Recently, they performed the title track of Straight Line Was A Lie on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

I hope you enjoy Till My Heart Stops as much as I did. Thanks for reading.

[Verse 1]
I pull away like I’m used to, like I used to
Pointless game that we play, do we choose to? Yeah, we choose to
Built a wall to the sky made of glass I can see through
Are you dying to break it? ‘Cause I want you to
I want you to

[Chorus]
And I wanna ride my bike in the rain
I wanna fly my kite in a hurricane
I wanna float out the top
I wanna dance till I drop
I wanna love till my heart stops
Till my heart stops

[Verse 2]
High in a tower looking down at the whole view
Left my body behind, does it miss me? Doesn’t seem to
Should I stay where I am? Where it’s safe here without you
Woke up nose to the earth where I fell to
Had to see you

[Chorus]
I wanna ride my bike in the rain (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
I wanna fly my kite in a hurricane (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
I wanna float out the top (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
I wanna dance till I drop
I wanna love till my heart stops (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
I wanna ride my bike in the rain (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
Then I want you to take me back home again (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
I wanna scream your name (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
I wanna know what I’ve got
I wanna love till my heart stops (In the rain, in the rain, in the rain)
Till my heart stops

[Bridge]
(Stay, stay, stay)
Bright sun in your eyes
Beckoning outside
Hey

References:
1. The Beths – Wikipedia