There are songs that you write — and then there are songs that write you.
I wrote this one ten years ago, when the world felt hollow and quiet after my friend Paul lost his fight with cancer. The grief was heavy, shapeless — it filled every room, every silence, every night sky above the farm where I had my studio.

About a month later, my friend Carey showed up — wild-hearted, fearless, the kind of person who could make broken glass look like stardust. She dragged me back into the world, back onto my motorcycle, back into the sunlight. She wanted me to finish the song — to feel again.

That night, I begged her to stay. But Carey was always chasing the next horizon.
On her way home, she hit a deer — gone in an instant, still burning at a hundred miles an hour.

After that, I couldn’t touch the song. It became a wound I didn’t want to reopen — a ghost I didn’t want to hear sing.

But grief doesn’t fade; it just finds new corners of the heart to live in. And as the world keeps showing us pain, loss, and beauty in equal measure, I knew it was time.

This song isn’t just about death — it’s about love that’s too big to disappear.
It’s about the echoes we keep, the laughter we still hear, the people who never really leave.

“Grief is just love with no place to go.”
Now, I’m finally letting it go — and letting it grow

Credits:
Vocals - Carey Smith
Piano - Matt Yee
Cello - Boy Joey

Grief is just love with no place to go - Remix

Boy Joey, American DJ, Music Producer & Audio Mixing Engineer from Baltimore, MD. As a child, Joey spent much of his time at the family Piano, as well as playing his parent's record collection on an old turntable. At the age of 16, Joey's love of music took him on a path to creating mashups of popular songs, shortly before he began producing music for his own remixes.  Over the years, he has been heavily influenced by the work of popular music producers and artists such as Bimbo Jones, Dave Audé, Digital Dog, Avicii, Afrojack, Calvin Harris, Alesso, Hardwell, Zedd, Fedde Le Grande, Purple Disco Machine, among others.

In recent years, Joey has had the chance to do official remixes for artists like Pink, Lady Gaga, and Kygo to just name a few, as well as being a featured DJ at Bears Bikers and Mayhem, one of the largest and most popular Bear Events in the World along with being awarded not one but two Gold Records.