"Everything Happens" (Digital Single)

Groovin' & dark 🎸

Ali's song "Everything Happens" was inspired by the life story of her co-writer, and reflects the heaviness of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the song was recorded. 

Written by Ali Handal & Denise Michele Powers.
Produced by Seth Atkins Horan.

Ali Handal: Vocals, Guitars, Organ
Jimmy Paxson: Drums & Percussion
Johnny Flaughers: Bass

Lyric:

She goes dark in June

I know not to call

Gallons of gas station vodka fuel her free fall

But memories never drown

No matter how she tries

Fightin’ that old fire with all those tears she cries

Why, oh why?

They say everything happens for a reason

But they’ve never walked in her shoes

They haven’t lost two lifetimes more than any mother ever should lose

Who says everything happens for a reason?

I say everything happens.

I say everything happens.

It was far too late

By the time my sisters woke

Trapped upstairs in the playroom

Breathin’ all that smoke

We don’t know how it sparked

Or how mom escaped

But I know she’d give anything

To take her babies’ place

Why, oh why?

They say everything happens for a reason

But they’ve never walked in her shoes

They haven’t lost two lifetimes more than any mother ever should lose

Who says everything happens for a reason?

I say everything happens.

I say everything happens.

Sometimes we don’t get to choose

Sometimes it’s just lose or lose.

They say everything happens for a reason

But they’ve never walked in her shoes

They haven’t lost two lifetimes more than any mother ever should lose

Who says everything happens for a reason?

I say everything happens.

Yeah I say everything happens.

I say everything happens.