Original Music

WRITER | SINGER | PRODUCER

When I was little, I filled piles of notebooks with lyrics and performed songs for my family, choreography and all.

I still love writing songs, and although they’re no longer about ice cream and Polly Pockets, I’ve found new things to write about, like ice cream and heartbreak (those go really well together).

I wrote Italy after visiting Italy with my family in 2018 and immediately fell in love with the country. Every time I blow out my birthday candles, I wish to go back (will it not come true now?). I wrote Toy Cars and Pools during my freshman year of college, a time when I was living my best life but also deeply nostalgic about my youth.

  • Verse 1:

    Wild flowers like street signs

    Rain showers in the meantime

    I guess I, I guess I’m in love

    Small streets and big skies

    The sunset and the sunrise

    never seemed so golden

    I think I’m in love with this moment

    Chorus:

    Don’t you just want to fall in love in Italy

    No way back and no way forward

    Maybe that’s the reason for it

    Don’t you want to fall in love in Italy

    Beauty there is something crazy

    It makes love seem so easy

    I wanna fall, I wanna fall

    Verse 2:

    Is it the sunshine?

    Is it the nightlife

    that draws you in,

    makes you feel again

    What are you waiting for?

    Come on get in the car, let’s take a drive

    I wanna go somewhere so beautiful I can’t close my eyes

    I don’t want to close my eyes

    Chorus:

    Don’t you just want to fall in love in Italy

    No way back and no way forward

    Maybe that’s the reason for it

    Don’t you just want to fall in love in Italy

    Beauty there is something crazy

    It makes love seem so easy

    I wanna fall, I wanna fall in love

    I wanna fall

  • Verse 1:

    Second grade, in the backseat

    Of the bus to the track meet

    And you told me you loved me

    We were so much bolder

    We’re so much older

    I used to dance alone in my room

    I used to glance up at the moon

    Like I’d go there someday,

    Before I was afraid

    Chorus:

    Now I care what people think of me

    I stay up at night and hate to see the sun

    What I would do

    To go back to toy cars and pools

    To breakfast in bed,

    To playdates at noon,

    To long messy hair,

    A pretty pink room

    Verse 2:

    It felt like just yesterday I was so small

    Now I’m much older but I don’t feel tall

    When I was younger I thought by now I would know everything

    But I don’t know anything

    I used to read and I used to write about

    Castles and trees, princesses in the night

    I was so much bolder

    Now I’m so much older

    Chorus ×2:

    Now I care what people think of me

    I stay up at night and hate to see the sun

    What I would do

    To go back to toy cars and pools

    To breakfast in bed,

    To playdates at noon,

    To long messy hair,

    A pretty pink room