Maren Morris: ‘There’s Always Something That We’re Rallying Behind After Tragedy’
In 2017 not long after the Route 91 shooting in Las Vegas, Maren Morris released a song she wrote called “Dear Hate” addressing social issues.
The song lyrics include, “Dear Hate / Well, you sure are colorblind / Your kiss is the cruelest kind / You could poison any mind/ Just look at mine / Don’t know how this world keeps spinning ’round and ’round.”
Maren recently said of the three-year-old song, “‘Dear Hate’ will always have a place in these times because it’s touching on so many moments in history, like Charlottesville, Black Lives Matter. In the song, it references the JFK shooting, September 11th, you know all these really tragic things that have happened over the course of our history, and I think that song applies to every time that we’re in because there’s always something that we’re rallying behind after tragedy.”
She continued, “After Route 91 and playing that festival and releasing ‘Dear Hate’ as a song to be medicinal to people in that time, I’m so appreciative that people have been comforted by that song. I wish that it hadn’t needed to be written, but at the same time I’m glad that there is music to combat that sort of sadness and that world that will always be prevalent, but music has been such a medicine through it.”
Morris concluded, “You know it’s been more than music, it’s action. I’ve been able to donate the proceeds from that song to charity, and I don’t play it live very often but when I do it’s usually met with utter silence and people just really taking it in. So I think that I’m so proud to have written it, and I think it will probably always be timely, and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing but I’m glad it’s resonated with people.”
