Rishi Keshe Hirway

We're so proud of you."

And it was just a really beautiful, eloquent, articulate message that made me feel like, wow, what must it be like to have a parent who understands you so well and understands what to say?

I've just never had that.

And I was thinking about all of that in that hospital room.

And so that's where this song began.

Air hangs in the room.

hoping you'll say something soon i've learned by now you tried but you never knew how so i went without

Yeah, I was mostly accompanied by just the heart rate monitor.

And when it came time to record and we were figuring out the arrangement, we dropped down at times to just the piano and the voice while we were figuring it out.

And you can hear it in the second chorus.

Everything goes away and it's just the piano.

And the chords are changing while I'm singing, but this one note is just playing throughout.

Words you never managed.

Time I spent away.

We did a lot of damage.

Still.

highway and we set the tempo to be at around you know like a heartbeat speed and it wasn't something that i had planned it was something that we sort of discovered in the recording studio while we were working and it was one of those like beautiful serendipitous moments that just kind of came through collaborating

Yeah.

Well, you know, one of the biggest changes in terms of listening, to go back to your earlier question, making this album was a completely new experience for me.

So foreign and different from any way I'd made music ever before in my life.