There's a sign posted at a ski resort that says "the mountains will be just as cold and lonely as they were 200 years ago".

For some reason, that hit me. This song was composed as a last hurah from generations who "dredged through snow", not knowing it would be their last. That life hasn't changed all that much for the past hundred or so years. The song climaxes to "How Great Thou Art", both as a somber end and as an acceptance of what is to come.

Life hasn't changed all that much. This is composed for those who didn't make it. Who couldn't keep going.

The Mountains Will Be Just as Cold and Lonely as They Were 200 Years Ago - 1:23:24, 2.36 AM

“Death Wish” a pop/indie record that calls out white male privilege and the direct impact it has on women’s lives. On many occasions I have offended people by speaking openly about how damaging white male privilege is and how we need more men to stop being ignorant and entitled and start to speak up for us as allies. Recently, I got to a boiling point where I realized I have seen and heard too many ignorant actions for me not to write an entire song about it. What a lot of men lack is empathy—the willingness to put themselves in another person’s shoes and see the world from a marginalized person’s point of view—because, growing up in their privilege, it wasn’t something they were taught was important. If a man put himself in my life for one day, he would feel so much fear, shame, and a lack of respect from others just for being a woman. If he knew what it was like to have to walk around in public in broad daylight, clutching onto his pepper spray, praying no one harasses him just for existing, there’s no doubt in my mind he wouldn’t feel my pain and start to be a vocal ally for women.

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