Behind the single: When the world says no.

In May of 2025 I had gotten into a bad motorcycle accident (more on that later). Prior to that, I got let go from my last contract copywriting gig in May of 2023 — a career I’ve loved doing for over a decade.

From then, to about December of 2024 I applied to hundreds upon hundreds of jobs (to no avail), ran out of unemployment money, and have been struggling to find work since then. And since I didn’t make enough money, prior to my accident, I barely got anything from any sort of medical leave.

Only when I was able to get a holiday job in a mail room, after deciding to put my copywriting career on ice, was when I had some sort of hope for any income. But it was barely enough to live on.

Living with my partner, Kelly, I’m thankful she earns enough to take care of us, both. But the mail room job had ended, due to my accident, and have been twiddling my thumbs on what I should do next, ever since then.

My one love, was no longer.

For those that don’t ride, it’s hard to explain what sort of therapy and community riding a motorcycle brings. At least, for a guy like me, whose career has grown significantly more and more difficult to keep doing — working with bigger and bigger brands that kept destroying my creative ideas and self esteem. And so, I’ve been fiddling around on my acoustic, as a way to escape everything I’ve been going through, with the first little guitar and vocal melody that starts the song off.

As always, it’s been a positive release of a lot of negative energy I’ve had bottled up inside for quite a long time.

Like most initial ideas start, I recorded the main acoustic guitar and vocals into my phone and let it sit there for a bit before coming back to it, time and time again, to make it an actual song.

Like most of the songs I write, this was an amalgamation of all I’ve been through the last number of years. All the no’s. All the ghosting (from employers). All the things that were slowing trying to bring me down. And was pretty successful at doing.

My hope?

It’s that this very song does for you, what it does for me.

Inspire you to keep going. Despite, when (or how many times) this crazy world says no to you..