This song I wrote while grappling with the resurfacing of old wounds, one's I had never quite faced before. I was trying to sift through the head and the heart. Knowing intellectually that I deserved care and softness, but emotionally feeling quite violent towards myself.  

I wrote One Heart in a moment that I felt healed. When I could look back at it all and remark on how soft I had become, how patient, how strong. But I couldn't help but ask: did it have to be this hard? 

Black and Blue is when the hurt turned outwards, it was the first time I allowed myself to feel angry about what happened and how it stayed with me. 

I wrote this while questioning faith and the cultural dominance of religion. I couldn’t believe in a god who would allow what I experienced. The song is about reclaiming my identity and challenging the expectation that women must depend on someone else to be valued, whole, and safe.