Mindie Lind’s band Inly leaves us Monarchians in chills, sweats, tears, love. So when she reached out to us to say she’d written a new song, of course we were eager to hear it. Not only that, but its message is of peace – a resolution toward understanding the simple facts: don’t you know we’re here to die; don’t you know we’re here to live? Mindie provided a little language as to why she wrote this particular song, which you can read, hear, digest, love, below. 

“My heart has been aching over the past few weeks over what’s happening in Gaza. And I’m not even normally a world-politics person. But I’ve had the opportunity to know some amazing folks who have been going on these humanitarian trips to Palestine for decades and they are all Jews. In talking with them about their journeys over the years and as a Jewish person myself, it became really apparent to me that Jews and especially American Jews have a responsibility to be even saying the word “Palestine”! Or this other phrase we’ve been hearing, “Not in my name”. So last week reading all this stuff about what’s happening just got to me and I pulled over to the side of the road and just began balling – and I wasn’t’ trying to write it, but the song just came out. I know it sounds like a cliche, but I recorded this song because I just didn’t know what else to do. Kieran, of course, was completely down to record it fast and drop some of that terribly sad guitar on it. Along with Annie Ford’s viola. I think the song is as terribly sad as it should be.”

– Mindie