Find True Love

Album: Let's Walk (2024)
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  • "Find True Love" came to Madeline Peyroux during the George Floyd murder trial. She was deep in the pages of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry, searching for some kind of comfort, as the world seemed to be teetering on the brink. "I was imagining the first step towards healing, wondering if there could possibly be a future worth living for," she recalled to The Sun.
  • At the end of each verse, Peyroux quotes Dr. Cornel West - a philosopher, political activist, and one of the sharpest minds to ever grace a TV panel or lecture hall.

    In order to learn to love, one must learn how to die

    "The ideas in this song lets me imagine a place where I can become a better me," said Peyroux.
  • The driving, finger-picked acoustic guitar of Peyroux's longtime collaborator, Jon Herington, weave in and out of the shimmering keys of Andy Ezrin like a musical conversation between hope and despair.

    "I was searching for solace in the American landscape," Peyroux said. "I was imagining the first step toward healing, if there could be a future worth living for."

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