‘Mountain With A View’ Is A Response To Morgan Evans – Hollywood Life

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Morgan Evans, Kelsea Ballerini
CMT Music Awards, Show, Nashville, USA - 06 Jun 2018 — Image Credit: Shutterstock

Kelsea Ballerini is telling her aspect of the story in her new, six track EP, Rolling Up The Welcome Mat. The report is extremely uncooked and private, with Kelsea diving into her resolution to divorce Morgan Evans in 2022. The first track on the EP, “Mountain With a View,” contains a direct response to the track Morgan wrote in regards to the breakup himself, “Over For You.” In Morgan’s track, he wonders when the wedding was over for Kelsea and why she determined to tug the plug.

It seems that second occurred when Kelsea was spending time in Big Sur California (on a “mountain with a view,” in fact), whereas Morgan was throughout the pond enjoying reveals. In the refrain, Kelsea sings, “I’m wearing the ring still, but I think I’m lying. Sometimes you forget yours, I think we’re done trying. I realize you loved me, much more at 23, I think that this is when it’s over for me.”

In the bridge, Kelsea truly makes a direct reference to Morgan’s track, singing, “I think that this is when I cut the ties, I think that this is when I set myself free, one day you’ll ask, ‘When was it over for you?’” Morgan first performed the track at a live performance in September, after which went on to launch it formally just a few weeks later.

One of the most important takeaways on Kelsea’s new EP is that she went into her marriage with Morgan at too younger of an age. She additionally hints that distance as a result of pair’s busy careers wound up taking a toll on the connection. In a subsequent monitor, “Blindsided,” she calls Morgan out for performing so stunned by their breakup, asking, “Were you blindsided, or were you just blind?”

In the track, Kelsea factors out that there have been loads of indicators that Morgan will need to have seen earlier than she filed divorce papers. “Now you’re saying that your lost, and that’s lost on me,” she sings. “Years of sitting across from me in therapy. I know the truth is hard to hear, but it wasn’t hard to find.” She additionally hints that completely different opinions on the long run might have been a part of the rationale for the break up, including, “You didn’t ever wanna leave the house, or didn’t want a family.” By the tip of the track, she will get scathing, including, “It’s not f***ing news to you, babe, you’ve been in this relationship, it’s not news to you.”)

Kelsea additionally appears again on the connection fondly, although, as she remembers their wedding ceremony day within the first verse of the track “Just Married.” However, she additionally admits that she wasn’t meant for marriage at such a younger age. “I wasn’t made for fixing a plate, or keeping our problems buried,” she sings. “I wasn’t strong enough to keep on with all of the weight that I carried, yeah it was love, then it was just married.” In the bridge, Kelsea remembers their “beautiful wedding,” and says she “wasn’t this ready to undo I do.”

By the ultimate track of the EP, “Leave Me Again,” Kelsea needs Morgan nicely in the course of the holidays. “I hope you’re spending Christmas with your family, I hope you’re writing songs that you love, I hope you’re feeling happier than you’ve ever been,” she sings. However, the message of the track is one in all empowerment for herself, as she provides, “I hope I never leave me again.”