"Grateful" is about how to ease the blush of unfamiliarity when entering a new relationship. I wrote it when I made friends with the feeling of having just enough fuel to jump AND just enough fear to shut my eyes when I do it. This song is quite a bit more specific than my previous releases. As “Stuck” talked about trusting the feeling over the circumstance, and “Paint in the Dark” described the over-arching agreements that I have observed in the healthiest love, “Grateful” exemplifies these themes using the intimacy of a pillow talk conversation. It is about putting what I’ve learned into action and trusting what happens next.
As someone who has spent most of their music career playing sh...