But I got stronger, and smarter, and, also of course, I’m a much better person having experienced all of it. The transition was, of course, horribly painful. Ahh – remember the first time you had a giant life crushing/altering horror storm? Remember that? Yeah. We’ve all heard the old adage, “Sometimes you need to break down in order to break through” and I was discovering that first-hand for the first time. I had been in an unhappy relationship for so long that I had lost myself and had to go back to basics with a lot of things to re-discover who the hell I even was. I had to build a whole new working career to financially support myself. I was living in a studio apartment in one of the worst neighborhoods in San Francisco. My first marriage had ended recently and I moved out on my own for the first time ever. When I wrote the song I was going through a big life transition. (Don’t tell the other songs) It’s off of our “Beautiful/Terrible” album released in 2012. Tidal Wave is probably one of my favorite songs we’ve ever done. It wasn’t until Mike and I teamed up and formed Sit Kitty Sit – and even then not until our second album – that I ended up digging it out of my old notebook to see what we could do with it.Īnd that’s when I truly saw it come to life. I held onto it for years because when I initially wrote it it was “too big” to play at the coffee shops and such that I was frequenting. I wrote Tidal Wave so long ago it feels like another lifetime. When I realized it – I had kind of an “ah-ha” moment. It took me a few days to realize that it was actually an old one of MY songs – Tidal Wave. Recently I found myself humming a melody over and over. When it comes to songwriting it’s pretty common for me to write a song and not really know what it’s about for a while.

Tidal wave song