Butcher Babies reveal a more personal side to their art on “Leaving California,” a bittersweet look at loss, change and the hard decision to leave behind what once felt permanent. The song is undeniably personal, based on Shepherd’s own experience of seeing loved ones and members of her creative community leave California in the face of the pandemic. She ponders swapping the “comfort of sandy beaches, ocean air and the walk of fame for the big unknown” and it sums up the emotional paradox at the heart of it. “Leaving California” exists in the space between grief and possibility, a meditation on what has been lost and an honest confrontation with what comes next.
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