Songfacts®:

• "Ledges" is the fifth track from Noah Gundersen's debut solo album with the same title.
  
  When A Music Blog, Yea? asked him to pick one song on the album that best summarized what he was hoping to achieve, Gundersen chose "Ledges," and said it was a "four minute summary of my life in 2012."
• When we spoke with Gundersen, he expanded about what specifically inspired the tune. "I had just moved into a new apartment in Seattle," he said. "I had just broken up with somebody. I was at the end of a long relationship and was exploring my freedom. It just all came out there in the lyrics."
• Gundersen's lyrics often honestly portray what is happening in his personal life and "Ledges" is another example of that occurring:
  
  Here, I stand on the edge of the ledges I've made
  Looking for a steady hand
  Here, I stand in the land full of rocks in the valleys
  Trying to be a better man for you
  But I drink a little too much
  It makes me nervous
  I've got my grandfather's blood
  And I take a little too much
  Without giving back
  If blessed are the meek, then I'm cursed