Song for His Mother

There’s something about making it as an artist that makes you want to write something for your mother. Not out of obligation or because it plays in an interview, but because she was there before any of this, when you were just a kid in a suburb with something to say. Romano did that on his album Copyshop. I haven’t heard the song, don’t know if it’s sentimental or clever or both, but I get the impulse. You spend years building something, learning to say what you mean, and eventually you turn back toward the person who believed in you first.