mae

“i think i’d like to have a daughter”, the second song from my sophomore record, will be out this friday, 8/28!!
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I never really thought I wanted kids. the idea of taking responsibility for a whole human life and its development is terrifying, and I also never really thought i’d be capable of it. i’m still not so sure i would be, but falling deeply and fully in love with someone makes you start to see the world in a different way. the sky looks brighter, the hard days aren’t necessarily less hard but they do have a comforting presence to them in a way they didn’t before, knowing you’ll come out the other side and have someone who loves you waiting.
I wrote this song in the parking lot of red rocks after sitting next to a mom and her teenage daughters at a show. they were laughing and bickering and for the first time, I was able to see a small part of myself in that. It came from a place of both love and mourning. knowing that more than anything, if i were to have a child one day, i’d want it to look like both liz and i, while also knowing that isn’t possible.
here’s to hoping science can somehow make it happen, and to falling so in love that you wish for impossible things.