Fan hook. If you've ever stopped trying to make something useful and just let it be honest instead — this song is for you.

I used to write a lot of music for film and TV.

There's a craft to it. You learn what works. You learn what gets cut. You learn how to write something that will sit underneath a scene without distracting from it. It's a real skill, and I'm grateful I learned it. But after a while you start to forget what writing feels like when you're not trying to sell it to anyone.

A few years went by. I got back together with SideTripp — Justin and Stelle, two of my oldest collaborators — for the first time in a long time. We sat down to write, and before we even picked up our instruments, I said something that surprised me.

Can we just write something honest today? Not something we're trying to place. Not something we're trying to sell. Something true.

We all agreed. And then we sat there in silence for a minute, because the truth was none of us were doing very well. We were tired in the way you only get tired when you've been performing a version of okay for too long.

This song is what came out when we stopped performing.