San Francisco-based artist Michelle Bond, known as Michellar, is a visual artist, songwriter, and performer. After a 40-year hiatus, she returned to songwriting in 2023 and has since released 28 singles, one EP, and written over 140 songs. Her latest release, We Both Can Fall (October 2025), is a country ballad featuring upcoming artist Gracie Lou. The track combines steel pedal guitar, piano, and violins to create a tender, atmospheric sound. It explores love, heartache, and reconciliation, reflecting Michellar’s personal struggles and renewal.
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We Both Can Fall opens with the soft pull of a country guitar, its familiar drawl making it intimate. The melody moves slowly, almost cautiously, as if careful not to disturb the ache beneath the words. When Gracie’s voice enters, it carries both weariness and warmth, “We have different ways, you and I. I know it’s been a while since we have been together. I know it’s been hard for us to carry on.” Each line lingers, heavy with reflection. The song moves like a letter never sent, full of things unsaid yet deeply felt.
Eventually, the song expands. Subtle piano notes and soft violins weave around the guitar, and though the sound grows richer, the vocals stay front and center. “There must be a place inside our hearts that takes us right back to the very start.” Here, the nostalgia turns active, searching, and hopeful. Through this shift, it transforms memory into motion, heartbreak into possibility.
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By the final verse, “Babe we should try and stay, there’s many different ways to say that I love you,” closes the song on a note of renewal. Throughout, the song never explodes; it exhales. Meanwhile, every instrument seems to bow out softly, letting the voice linger.
Ultimately, We Both Can Fall is not about finding grace and love within pain. It sounds tender yet unflinching—a reminder that love, even bruised, can still rise.
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Figuring out my path while actively plotting ten others. Serious about my dreams with somewhat chaotic ambition. Will do anything for cats.
