I wrote this song years ago, after losing my cat during a difficult stretch of my life. At the time, I didn’t know the song would stay with me the way it has — or that it would quietly resurface when loss showed up again.
This week, after losing Shade, I found myself thinking about how certain songs don’t belong to a moment so much as they hold one. They become a place you can return to when words aren’t enough.
Creativity doesn’t fix loss. But sometimes it gives it somewhere to live.
This is July.
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I love this song, Kat Spencer. It's beautiful and moving. Incredible job on it!
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Thank you Maurice Vaughan - I appreciate that!
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You're welcome, Kat Spencer.
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Hey it’s 3:10am EST and I’m staying up researching everything there is to know about songwriting especially after everything I went through with my Autistic boyfriend. You’re absolutely right. Music is indeed carthetic. I’m so terribly sorry to hear about your cat. My deepest most sincere condolences.
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By the way I listened to your song on YouTube it’s beautiful. I was deeply moved by it.
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Hi Kat Spencer
I just subscribed to your YouTube channel, and I wanted to say how deeply moving “July” is. It must have been incredibly difficult to write, and as a fellow cat lover, I truly understand how much of your heart they carry with them.
The way you described the song becoming a place you can return to really stayed with me. That idea—that creativity gives loss somewhere to live—is powerful, and you can feel that truth inside the music.
I’ll be watching the rest of your work when I get the time, and from what I’ve seen so far, it’s absolutely beautiful and honest.
I’m truly sorry for your loss. Shade’s presence clearly continues through what you’ve created.
Thank you so much Diana Levin!
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Thank you B.A Sins! That means a lot to me. I don't think the song was difficult to write in the sense that it flowed quickly. But there were definitely tears streaming down my face, even to this day when I listen to it and it gets to the faster part, which is where, in my mind, I was running to be by his side.