Pretty Girl [A Lullaby] #

Background #

It is time for a song that I have written. Not for a lost love, or a woman I was in love with, but for another queer woman who I am friends with… Trying to be friends with again. And I wrote this song for her daughter. And I wrote it, I think around her daughter’s first birthday. And, um, we fell out of contact due to some actions on her part. But she recently reached out to me again. So, I’m hoping that the good energy that this song puts into the world will help heal our friendship, because I really miss her, and I really miss being a part of her daughter’s life. Um, I’m fairy goddaughter to many chil– fairy godMOTHER to many children all around the world, but it’s different to be a fairy godmother to a child in person. And that’s something I really miss being a part of my life.
So, this song goes out to all the queer moms, um, or moms of queer kids, um, who don’t understand that they’re in control. And don’t hear enough that they’re strong in ways that isn’t just through survival. Because there’s, like, the strength of women, like, “Oh, women are so strong, they can endure.” But I’m not talking about endurance. I’m talking about, like, power. I’m talking about feeling like you have actionable paths in front of you and that you’re in control of how you navigate those actions. Um, that’s different than being able to endure, which I think the strength of women is often implied to be. Um, and this song isn’t just for women, it can be for anyone who needs a lullaby, who needs to hear that they’re more than what they look like, or more than the thing they’re known best for. I didn’t just write it for my friend and her daughter, I also wrote it for myself, because it’s things I need to hear too.

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