When We Started Saying We

This song is inspired by a real r/relationship_advice post about a couple whose future changed when they learned the partner was going to become a father. The writer describes meeting on New Year’s Eve, taking a careful step back, finding their way to each other again, and finally starting to say “we” about the future—only to receive an 11:00 p.m. call that changed the shape of that future overnight. Her partner takes responsibility, but the life they had both chosen not to build is suddenly part of the decision.

The song starts with close piano and fingerpicked guitar, then opens into swelling strings and a wider melodic hook without turning anyone into a villain. It is for the moment when love can still be real and a shared future can still be wrong for you—when you need company for a goodbye that has no clean enemy and no easy answer.