Being able to record this and get in that mindset of how I felt meant a lot to me because
I know that even though I’m not feeling that anymore, a lot of other people in the
world are feeling that and a lot of other people are going through a time where it’s
dark for them and they don’t really see a way out.
With my music, I love to connect with people and I love to inspire people.
What inspired this song for me was a really hard time I went through in my life where
I was very depressed.
I felt like I didn’t have any hope.
It was the first time in my life where I was questioning if I would make it as a singer.
It’s very important to believe in yourself, you know, before anything else.
At that time, I didn’t even like…
I was like questioning it.
And that’s a big thing for me.
I’m a half glass full type of person.
Being in a dark space where you feel like you’re just kind of trapped and isolated
and you can’t get out and you don’t see anything around you.
You’re just stuck in your head.
And you keep thinking the same things, you know, negative thoughts.
You start to go into a circle where you just can’t stop yourself.
You’re slipping into dangerous ways and you normally don’t think like that.
When I wrote, “Looking for a familiar face,” I was talking about myself.
Like trying to find yourself again ‘cause you’ve lost yourself but you know that you
can always come back around from that.
I think that’s something that like a lot of people don’t realize, is that there’s
always a way back around, you know?
There’s always a way to get back to like your true self.
Something that looks broken and beat up can look brand new the next moment.
You just gotta put a little work into it.
Walking through your own disaster…
It’s like you realize what you’ve done and you see what you’ve done and you’re
just tired of it.
You just wanna move on and start thinking positive.
I know that sounds like so cliche and just like, “Oh."
"Think positive,” but it’s so true because honestly, if I didn’t think the way that
I think, you know, like being positive and always being optimistic, I wouldn’t be where
I am now.
Your candlelight is representing the glimmer of hope that you have in a situation where
there shouldn’t be any or there isn’t any.
That’s just knowing in your heart that things will get better.
Something within telling you that like it’s not okay to be living like this.
It’s not okay for you to think like this.
You need to take the first step to get you into like a better situation.
It was very important for me to write this song, to be very descriptive and like make
you visualize things because with this subject, it’s very easy to get lost in just being
like, “Be positive."
"Be happy."
"It’ll be okay."
"Everything will be better.”
And even though those are good things to hear, for a song, you want people to listen to your
music so I feel like something more descriptive will attract people to that and you know,
that’s the message they wanna hear but they wanna hear it in that way.