Why I Released “Another Cinderella."
Some songs are carefully scheduled months in advance.
Others arrive because someone quietly asks for them.
“Another Cinderella” wasn’t originally part of my release plan.
It lived in my notebooks for years — one of many poems written long before I ever started turning them into songs. I never considered it among my strongest pieces, and for a long time I was content to let it remain a private work.
But sometimes a piece of writing doesn’t belong only to the person who wrote it.
Someone who mattered to me carried this poem quietly for nearly eight years. Not publicly. Not performatively. Just privately drawing strength from it in ways I never fully saw. When she finally asked if I would consider releasing it as a song, it changed how I looked at the piece. It was no longer just something I had written once upon a time — it had become something that had lived alongside someone else ’s life.
That realization made the decision simple.
The process of turning decades-old poems into music has been a strange experience. Some of the pieces I’ve released were written during very different chapters of my life. Hearing them sung back to me for the first time has felt like opening sealed letters from earlier versions of myself. Some still resonate exactly as they were. Others reveal meanings I didn’t fully understand when I wrote them.
“Another Cinderella” falls somewhere in between.
It’s a song about perception — about the distance between the stories we tell ourselves and the realities we eventually confront. It isn’t cynical, but it isn’t naïve either. Like most of my work, it lives in that uneasy space between hope and recognition.
Releasing it now feels less like unveiling something new and more like allowing something old to finally take its place in the open air.
I’ve been releasing songs steadily for the past several months, drawing from a catalog of poems written over decades. Each one feels like placing a small marker in the world — a way of saying, “This existed. This mattered. It was lived.”
Some songs connect quickly. Others take time.
Some may only ever matter to a handful of people.
But when a piece of writing has already meant something real to even one person, that’s reason enough to let it live outside the notebook.
“Another Cinderella” releases tomorrow.











































































































