“My mum died very
unexpectedly in 2021. We’d been on tour with Skindred and I had literally just
walked in the front door, after having been away for two weeks, when I got a
phone call from my brother telling me to get back in the car and get down to
Devon as my mum had been taken to intensive care and induced into a coma. She
died just one week later. I decided in that week, sat by her hospital bed, that
I just had to find a way to bring light into what was the darkest moment of my
life. I owed it to her, having brought me into the world, to find a way to grow
from this terrible thing and reach out into the darkness rather than let it
overwhelm me. This song is about that idea: let light in, grow with grief, open
yourself to it and you find deep beauty and connection. A death doesn’t have to
be the end, it can actually be the beginning – I choose to honour my mum
by living like this.”