This song is the leading track on an album that has been a ‘desert island’ album for me for years, and though I often wander away from Tara Maclean at times, in the times where I’m just flat on the ground, needing to pick myself back up, I usually wind my way through her first two release, Silence (a brutal album of depressing songs, raging songs, and bittersweet love) and then move on to Passenger, lead off by IF I Fall, a song that always makes me want to arrange a road trip with friends and escape whatever has me buckled over weeping.  The song feels like an answer to all of the soul searching and worry of her first disc, and is, as Tara once said, one of her few truly “happy songs”.

Because really, when it comes down to it in the end, we all have to save ourselves.  We all have to remember that we have picked ourselves up before, and continue to do so, the memories of our pains burned into our hearts like scars that will not heal, and yet buoyed by the knowledge that the wounds are survivable.