The Gift is inspired by the cherished relationships my co-writer, Matt Koziol, and I both had with our grandmothers. I had recently lost my grandmother when we wrote this and we bonded over how we were both privileged to truly know them, even being let in on the harder parts of aging and time passing. We spent the morning sharing stories about them and we almost called it a day after getting stuck at the end of the chorus. Then I remembered this card on my grandmother’s fridge — a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt. That same card hangs on my office wall and I had seen it just that morning — “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.” An idea sparked and I told Matt to hold tight as I untangled my thoughts and melodies and landed on the last line of the chorus — where the title came from. Then the rest of the song poured out of us.
Caroline Spence - The Gift
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