Sunday Sounds: May 9, 2021, “Mother”

Posted On May 9, 2021

Samantha Colleran, May 2021

Happy Mother’s Day to all moms and mother figures out there! Today’s Sunday Sounds is a rather short song, but it holds a lot of meaning in the few simple words that make up the track. The fifth song from Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour titled “Mother” clocks in at just over a minute long, but the emotion that comes along with it will break and mend your heart simultaneously. 

While “surfing waves of LSD” on a summer night, Kacey got a text from her mom in the midst of feeling extra nostalgic. “It made me miss her. It made me think about her hands. Hands that carry out the vision her imagination brings on canvas with her beloved paints and brushes. Hands that find treasure in found junk. Hands dirtied by the East Texas soil. Hands that held me,” Kacey said in an Instagram post. So, Kacey sat there on that summer night, tears in her eyes, and wrote this little song about missing her mom, who was also most likely missing her own mother who passed away a few years ago. 

It’s a really simple piano ballad that’ll make you cry your eyes out the first time you listen to it. It’ll also make you cry your eyes out the fiftieth time you listen to it. I haven’t been gone from home too long (you know, COVID and all), but whenever this song managed to find its way into my headphones while I was up at school, it filled me with a lot of emotion and, as the song states, it made me miss my mom. So, Happy Mother’s Day Mom, I hope this little ballad makes your day; it says the things I should say more often.

Feel free to comment a song that reminds you of your mom, your mom’s favorite song, or a fun memory you have of you, your mom, and music! Happy Mother’s Day once again!