a lifetime ago...

I typically write for myself

but I always post my music in hopes that it resonates with someone else too

All the songs on this mini EP were gifts to loved ones

I post almost all my songs on YouTube

but I never thought to post these

Now years have past and I rediscovered them quite recently

When I listened to them for the first time in years

I knew I wanted to release them

I thought why should I let these songs rot in my computer

When someone out there could benefit from listening

The first song on a lifetime ago... is called Addie's Lullaby

I wrote it for my choir director, Ian Brekke, in 2020

He was having his first baby during lockdown and I wanted to give him a gift to celebrate

I thought a lullaby would be fitting for his little girl

The song is written in his perspective

Expressing his love for his child

It was easy to put myself in his shoes to write this song since I've always wanted to be a mom

The second song on the mini EP is called Believe

I wrote this song for my first love

I've never felt that way before for anyone and I wanted to express my feelings for him

He felt like forever and I wanted him to know

The last song on the mini EP is called Another Life

It is about loving someone after a breakup

and it was written for the same person I fell in love with for the first time

I felt as if we would have made it in another life

So naturally I wrote a song about it

After I finished writing this song

I let him know that I was writing about him

he told me "I knew what I was getting myself into"

All these songs were recorded 3-5 years ago

I thought about rerecording them

But they are filled with emotions that I cannot replicate

I write to capture a moment in time

And those moments were efficiently captured

a lifetime ago... is filled with nostalgic memories

I hope you enjoy this blast from the past