I didn’t want to make a sad song. I just wanted to get those emotions out. I needed to tell this story, about how this person got me out of such a horrible time, and how there are lots of people like her out there.

I was sitting in the dining room with my mom, and I get a text from Claire. And she goes, ‘I wrote a song about you’ and I was like, ‘Okay, wait, what?’ She sent me the demo, and I go, ‘Okay Mom, I’m gonna play something Claire sent me.’ I play it off my phone, and we both just started crying.

I just felt so many things going through my body, just all these emotions, and it took me back to the night that that song was about. Which, we don’t really talk about a lot, but we know that it was there.

–Alexa, via Song Exploder

That song is extremely special to me, just because it’s about an experience that I never really shared with a lot of people. In eighth grade, I was having a really hard time dealing with my depression that’s been on and off my whole life, and there was a time where I really felt like I didn’t want to be here anymore. And instead of making this song about how sad that is and how bad I felt in the moment, I wanted to make it about my friend Alexa who called the police when she suspected that I was feeling this way. Even if it was just the thought, she still cared enough to intervene and be a true friend, which is something I didn’t feel like I ever had and had never experienced until Alexa. So the song is really more of a love song to her and kind of a ‘thank you’ and a reminder to everyone else that there are people like Alexa that want to help uplift you and get you out of really terrible head-spaces. I’m in the best stage of my life right now, and I would have never known how great it was, but Alexa is a big part of my life and a big part of my story.

– Clairo, Coup De Main Magazine