When Dan and I first met, he handed me a thumb drive with 40+ demo tracks on it and said “pick three to write to, then come back.” This was the one of the songs that I chose. Its simplicity pulled at my heartstrings and I immediately knew we needed to get strings on it. We found our angel, Jackie Robbins, and she made the track so spectacular. She played cello and bass and brought in her sister Sandra on viola and Alan Grunfeld on violin. They were wonderful to work with and brought such haunting, heartrending magic to the track.

Dan and I never intended to be country, but it lives in both of us. In the summer of 2021, I was sorting through a lot in my personal life and it came out through my music. I never sat down and thought “let’s write a country song.” I just let my thoughts and feelings flow and then my brain kept screaming this super country guitar lick. So I told Dan “I guess we’re doing country.” The next thing that screamed at me was “THIS SONG NEEDS FIDDLE!” So we brought in the enchanting Paddy King not only on fiddle but he also threw some mandolin on the track. The song came together so naturally and ended up being one of our fastest turnarounds from paper to release. It was simply meant to be.

This song sat in the back of my journal for years. I think I first started writing it in high school before I even got into my first relationship. Then I shelved it, picked it up again a year or two later, and then shelved it again. It wasn’t until I met Dan in 2020 that I decided to bring it back into the light. I had never seriously written a song before, but I remembered this song-like poem in my notebook and thought it would be cool to see if we could make it a real song. Figured I’d take Dan’s musical abilities for a test run. It ended up working so well that it became our first single. I’ll always remember Dan telling me I was nuts for putting waves and seagulls on a track (and then being so picky about it), but he ended up loving it and it wouldn’t be the same without them.