I think the nature of breakups, one person is always going to get the shorter end of
the stick.
And I just got lucky and I think I do have guilt about that.
I left, went on tour, got to see the world, met someone new really soon afterwards.
It's all in there.
With “The Good Side” I was writing with my best friend Leland and Allie X and Bram
Inscore, who's a team I am extremely comfortable with.
We've written together for a good few years now.
I was in my feelings that day about that particular situation.
And because we're all so close, they knew the ins and outs of the entire situation and
knew the complexities of the situation.
We were just having this conversation about, "Let's try to write a song about it, but let's genuinely vent."
Let's not try and make me the victim or anything like that, because that's not the way it went
down.
Let's write an honest song about how the cookie crumbled and how shitty that is that it happened
like that.
I mean we weren't going to get engaged but the imagery to me was these two engagement
rings and one of the partners being left to deal with both of them.
That same kind of wind that I was enjoying on my ring finger is really crippling you
and bringing you down.
My last album was called ‘Blue Neighbourhood.’
I wrote a little bit about this breakup as it was happening, as I was going through all
of the emotions that sort of led to the breakup.
This super surreal experience of me being out on stage and singing these songs about
something so personal and current.
It was being sang right back at me with these big smiles and people dancing and stuff.
For me it was a really healing experience but it was also super super strange.
Know that I haven't just gone and ran off and completely forgotten about you.
And I recognize that I'm getting to do all this stuff and it's probably easier for me
than it is for you.
And I apologize, I wish that this wasn't the way things were going down.
Yeah, I think in the early stages of a breakup that's one of the weirdest things.
Your go-to person to call is not there anymore or shouldn't be.
While I was off getting to see all these amazing places and having all these crazy experiences
I would take out my phone be like, "Oh shit, no."
Put it back in my pocket.
I think it will happen.
I'm sure that I will bump into him at some point and I've been watching from afar everything
he's been up to and I am super proud of him.
That relationship I learned so much that it set me up for the rest of my life.
Every relationship even if it's not the perfect one that lasts forever, every time you learn
so much about yourself and about relationships and about love and you grow.