Don’t Wanna Talk About It
This hasn’t happened to me before. I’m releasing a song this Friday, and I don’t want to talk about it.
Photo by Liz Brown
On one hand, this song is more of a sad-girl song, and so it’s a little odd to know how to get people [¡eXciTEd!] about a [bummer :-(] of a song.
But it’s more than a marketing issue for me. I was listening through this song today, and the lyrics were hitting like little daggers to a fresh wound.
I wrote this song at a very painful time in my life; that’s nothing special — it’s true of all my 2023 releases. (Hi how are ya, the last couple years were a very painful time in my life.) But this particular song touches on an aspect of the pain that I didn't open up to many people about. And honestly, I don’t want to start doing that now.
“I’m scanning for life in this wilderness, I’m squinting my eyes in the dark. I kept my composure for so many years. I knew all my lines, played my part.”
Read all the lyrics of “Where To Go” here.
What I can say is that I don’t really feel this way anymore. I listen to these lyrics, and I realize how much healing has happened in the last year; I realize that I’m not really in that headspace anymore. And I am very thankful for that.
However, I can still feel that pain when I think about it. And for that reason, I won’t go into a lot of details about why I wrote it. Instead, I’ll extend this song as a gift to anyone who can resonate with it. Anyone who has lost a sense of belonging and wants to reclaim it, but is fighting against cynicism and distrust.
Photo by Liz Brown
Listen to “Where To Go” when it comes out on Friday (pre-save it here so you don’t forget), and see if you relate to any of these lyrics. If you do, feel free to let me know! I might not want to talk about all of my ins and outs in writing this song, but I would love to hear your ins and outs in relating to it!