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'Lucky Penny' is a collection of songs and stories. The first single 'Goodbyes' was written about mourning the loss of important people in your world. In the sense of ending romantic relationships it explores the process of knowing when someone isn't suited for your life or growth any longer. This is usually a very painful and sad process. I wrote this song to remind myself that even though it is hard you will sometime in the future meet those people who stick around. Even though people come and go in your world remembering that there will be lots of cries and laughs on your journey to finding those people who see you for who you are. 'Goodbyes' can also refer to death, birth, moving, friendship ending, romantic relationships... 'it takes a lot of goodbyes to get to forever.
How ya Doin' is a song that I wrote after someone who was speical to me woke up feeling sad and unconfident.
How they never wanted to go do things and see shows and have experiences because they were too stuck in their own head. I wrote it as sort of a mantra to get them out of that cycle and I suppose myself for being around it and learning how to help. But ironically it's been more recently a mantra to myself to keep me going!

My Birthday was the next week and I wanted to write a birthday song because there is one that everybody knows
"happy birthday to you".... but I wanted a new one. "Weird Birthday Song' I created after this character named
"Ginger" who looking back might be me?... her friend wanted to throw her a birthday party but Ginger didn't want it at all. It was written with this concept of sometimes people do things for others because it can show their own capabilities or show to the person "look what i did, I care about you" instead of just focusing on spending quality time with them. 'Weird Birthday Song' is meant to be a fun celebration of having a birthday! It's kind of a mockery of myself and shows my love for birthday party hats.

'Lucky Penny' the title track of the album is about having bad luck. It seems as though the more bad luck you have at times the more you attract it but this is my attempt at making it stop and putting up my lucky penny forcefield. I wrote in New York City on my birthday when in the bathroom and finding a lucky penny on the dirty bathroom floor. This was one, very lucky. Two, very gross and disgusting. The bathroom floor isn't my idea of luck more like yuck. Sometimes you have good luck but if you find some bad luck it shouldn't affect all the other good.
Because it's so so so easy to get stuck in a pattern of waiting for the next bad thing to happen if you are in a string of bad luck but as the song state "wait for one to fall one unlucky one doesn't ruin them all".

'Return to Sender' while on that same trip to New York I went to a vintage store and found a vintage postcard that read "Just one more day and i'll be home -Al". I began to look a little closer and it was addressed to a house down the street from my house in Portland, Oregon. I sat there thinking "there's no way this made it there in time" and then this story i my imagination spun into it's own.
'You Got Me' is a song that I wrote while I was going through something difficult about how things are always going to be ok. You may have that person that you can look at even when it feels like everything is on fire and feel like "no matter what things are going to be ok". The next track 'Time' I wrote after being around someone who wasn't respecting me and was just wasting my time. It's more of a "'m taking back my power and my own time" song.

'Want to Be in Love With You', 'Untitled love songs' and 'Boston' are love songs. These songs represent a moment in time and feeling that I can always come back to. It's remembering where you used to go with someone, how to city smelt, the sound of the traffic or lack there of, and how they made you feel. Just tapping into all the senses of someone.

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