American Songwriter: More recently, a song fell out of the sky and landed with her. She was sitting at the table in the studio with her notebook when the members of Tripsitter were riffing, and one hook stuck in her brain, and began to tell a story. “The musical phrase they were playing just seemed to suggest, ‘I will not be coming back,’ so I ran from there,” she says. It became the title for her 2026 release, ”‘I Will Not Be Coming Back.” Her songwriting process for this specific piece was deeply visual. When talking about the process of penning the song, she describes a path on the side of a mountain, one too narrow to turn around or falter. The track captures the feeling of a stage of life of forward momentum, where it’s impossible to return to the source—but the result reads more as resolute than despairing.
“You can lay clear the rock and the mountain, but karma must find the footsteps.”
–Translation of: Zung Jou Chi, from “The Last Journey”
When you climb the high, high mountain
In search of what you seek,
When you see what lies below you,
You realize the whole world is deep.
You can search the highest mountain,
Then search the bottom of the sea,
Neither has the answer,
To set a lost heart free.
Forget all the confusion,
Just choose the simple path.
A hopeful heart will guide you,
And free your soul at last.