Surrender was written at 2 am in Nicaragua in the jungle.

I was on a trip with some friends, some other writers and producers to this village in Nicaragua where they have all these recording studios and huts where you can focus on being creative.

I’d been broken up for a few months with a very important person in my life, and I had kinda put off dealing with my feelings.

Suddenly I was deeply feeling the weight of what that loss really meant, and there in the jungle, I wasn’t able to escape it.

I was there late at night and I just sat at my keyboard and this song just started to come through.

The idea of surrender, to me, has two sides. It can mean accepting defeat, or something more positive and mysterious: acknowledging something greater than yourself, like trusting in the flow of life.

I don’t know if I’ve written a more real song as far as the lyric goes – it’s really personal and it’s pretty raw.

Surrender is a song I’m excited about sharing because I feel like someone might relate to it and see something of themselves in it.

Performing this song is really cathartic for me, really healing. Writing it and releasing it was a huge part of being able to move on. I guess that’s what it’s about: moving on.