For You - Song Story
“For You” is a song that I originally started writing with my little siblings in mind. I was thinking over my own life and the mistakes that I’ve made, the regrets I have, and considering the kind of person I had become. I knew that there was more I could have done, less I could have said, and I wanted better for them. Sometimes the choices we make now affect who we are ten years down the road. So I wanted to offer some sort of wisdom or advice that I had gathered in my short
Does it Ever Get Better? - Song Story
“Does it Ever Get Better?” came during some pretty dark days. It is definitely the darkest song on the project, musically and otherwise. I have been going through some really difficult and painful things in my life in the past couple of years. On top of that, I couldn’t stop thinking about the endless stories that keep showing up in the news. School shootings, hurricanes, police murdering innocent people, Nazi protestors, and countless other tragedies occurring around the wor
Maybe - Song Story
“Maybe” is a song I started to write after hearing that my school was going to be closing after my junior year of college. I started to have a lot of questions about what school I was supposed to go to, if I should continue to pursue a career in worship ministry or pursue my own music, why something like this would even happen, etc. As I wrestled with all of these things, I kind of realized that maybe there’s not a right choice and a wrong choice, but instead there’s just the
Broken Lines - Song Story
“Broken Lines” is a song that I started writing as a sort of letter to my future self. So the beginning of the song is me talking to myself, saying hey you’re gonna regret the way you’re living right now. You’re going to regret the choices you made. You’re going to try to mend things but that chance is gone. You’re going to come a place where the bottom drops out and you want to call your past self and apologize and try to do better, but you’ve already ruined everything. Ther
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