I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. So I really had to take a look at myself, outside of being a mother and a wife, and internalize all of these emotions that I had been feeling through that transition. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time. We were junior high school sweethearts, and so much of your identity in junior high is built on who you’re with. I was just coming out of my relationship with Julez’s father. It’s the only song on the album that I wrote independently of the record, and it was a really rough time. “Cranes in the Sky” is actually a song that I wrote eight years ago. While asked by her sister Beyonce about the meaning of the song in Interview magazine, she explained: “Cranes in the Sky” describes Solange’s attempts at avoiding painful feelings
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