I wrote this song after legendary musician John Prine died of COVID-19. I listened
to his music very often before he died, and almost nonstop for a few weeks after he
died. Being saturated in his music, the grief I felt after he passed, and all of the
emotions I was feeling because of the pandemic in general, I felt the best way I could
express it all was through writing a song.
Prine had a unique ability to mix humor and sadness, real sadness in his songs. The
words that came to me as I wrote this song felt heavy yet I seemed to float above
all of my emotions and sit back and watch myself feel them and turn them into a simple
country song. I see this song as an acceptance of things that I can't control.
