A vulnerable exploration of tension within a romantic relationship, this song delivers an abundance of emotion with mellow sonics and faultlessly touching vocals.

Sara Kays is a 22-year-old Nashville-based singer-songwriter, guitarist and ukulele player, so she is no stranger to composing a lyrical story through music. She has refined her sound of alternative pop, by independently writing and recording every track, which has earned her over 1.8 million TikTok followers.

Simultaneously soothing and heartbreaking, Traffic Lights combines beautiful vocal harmonies and emotively transparent lyrics, to express the sadness one feels when they sense their relationship is falling apart.

Sara shares:

I wrote this song about noticing when someone is gradually falling out of love with you. At first you notice a small thing that might shift from how things have always been – in this song that’s when you’re driving around with them, and they don’t look at you or joke around with you like they used to. I hone in on that moment in these lyrics, but really it represents a lot of bigger things happening and a bigger loss.

Along with the single, Sara has released an aesthetically pleasing lyric video for Traffic Lights on YouTube so be sure to watch that too!