“Give Me A Minute” finds Jaime Deraz writing from the quiet aftermath of her mother’s funeral, a moment where grief is still fresh, but the world has already started to return to its normal pace.
The singer-songwriter track captures the raw truth of loss when expectations of healing begin to close in before someone is ready. Deraz does not romanticize the process. She names the pressure, the loneliness, and the panic that can come when everyone else’s sympathy has an end time, but your grief does not.
The song is built around the simplest request in the middle of a life-altering moment: slow down. Let me exist here. Let me have time.