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Baltimore hat geschrieben:@fipsi: Hab ja gerade zum ersten Mal The Exchange von Torres gehört.

Was für ein Hammer-Song! Hat mich echt berührt.

"The Exchange" references losing a whole basement’s worth of precious memorabilia; it feels related to “Moon & Back”, from your first album, which was about a mother giving up her baby for adoption.

MS: “The Exchange” is the story of my adoptive mother—I was adopted at birth, and she was adopted as well. “Moon & Back” was written from the perspective of my birth mother. I met her once; I believe I was 8. When I graduated from high school, my mom gave me a journal that my biological mother had written while she was pregnant with me. It was a tiny little spiral notebook. I read that and went to college and wrote “Moon & Back”. It was basically my perspective of her perspective when she wrote that journal.

Did your adoptive mother know your birth mother before you were adopted?

MS: Yeah, my mom was leading a Bible study, and my birth mother attended and hand-selected her to be my adoptive mother; she actually approached her and told her that she wanted her to be the mother of her child—me. “The Exchange” is really everything that I’ve tried to articulate to the people that I love but have never been able to, for whatever reason. My crippling fear of mortality; my intense, intense love of life; my fear of losing my parents and seeing people that I love get old. That was my own way of saying that I’m drowning but I’m OK. But I’m drowning. [laughs]

Das wäre dann „The Exchange“ (in diesem Song behandelt Mackenzie das Thema Adoption). Aber das spiele ich nicht live. Ich möchte eigentlich keine Songs schreiben, die mir zu wertvoll sind, um sie live zu spielen. Aber es musste raus. Da konnte ich nicht drum herum kommen. Er musste aufs Album.

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