Maybe this song will help.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you might have heard me share about when my manager quit because I decided to come out. He was a self-proclaimed ally, but he worked in a corner of the music industry that wouldn’t have looked kindly on him representing a queer artist and his business interests took priority. After he begged me not to come out, he quit, making consolation promises to support my transition to self-management. I never heard from him again.

I was, as you can probably imagine, crushed. I was lonely and depressed. And while I was curled up in a ball trying to shield myself from it all, my now-wife was baking me a pie.

This is a song about all of that. It’s about the loss and hurt of being left behind by people I thought cared about me, and it’s about the peace I found in the quiet, steady safety of queer love. In some ways it feels like a follow-up to “Pray It Away.” It was written over the course of many years, with a first iteration emerging right after all this happened. The second (and final) version came to me five years later, with hindsight and the wisdom that comes from it. I wrote this song with my wife,

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. The studio version is on my new record, Kin. You can read the lyrics below.

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Cheers and Happy Pride—we’ve made it this far :)
Alex

LYRICS

Maybe This Song Will Help

My love asked me to go on a drive
'Cuz breathing is hard in this life
Maybe the trees will help

My love is baking a pie just for me
And I’m being sad company
Maybe this song will help

Damn my childlike faith when someone I know
Once again says it’s God that I’m seeing
When they pack their things and go

Damn the love you preach
Don’t know what it’s for
'Cuz you still walk away as I’m crying
Saying, “You’ll be okay, I’m sure”

My love is looking for me in my eyes
I’m gone and she doesn’t know why
Maybe this drink will help

And I love her more than she even knows
But healing is far and I’m slow
Maybe some time will help

Damn my childlike faith when someone I know
Once again says it’s God that I’m seeing
When they pack their things and go

Damn the love you preach
Don’t know what it’s for
'Cuz you still walk away as I’m crying
Saying, “You’ll be okay, I’m sure”

[Instrumental]

But all the kindest things are quiet and slow
Taken in like a deer in the forest
At peace in the evening glow

She’s the warmest love that I’ve ever known
I am sure that this life will get harder
But with her I’ll be okay, I know