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Kelsea Ballerini<\/a> has made a career out of feminine relatability. Songs like “Homecoming Queen?,” “Leave Me Again” and “Mountain With a View” describe essential — and often painful — experiences of womanhood.<\/p>\n Even more heartachingly specific is her new song “I Sit in Parks,” which Ballerini released on Friday (Nov. 7) after announcing a new EP called\u00a0Mount Pleasant.<\/em><\/p>\n In its lyrics, Ballerini wonders if she’s missed her chance to become a mother.<\/p>\n She describes sitting in a park, watching a young family having a picnic, and wondering if she made a mistake by prioritizing her country music career over fulfilling that other, more common but no less wondrous, dream.<\/p>\n “By now is it a lucid dream? \/ For chasing things a body clock doesn’t wait for<\/em>?” Ballerini asks in the chorus of the song.<\/p>\n Read More<\/em>: Country Songs Inspired By An Artist’s Child<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Not many women will backburner parenthood specifically to pursue a career as one of country music’s A-Listers. But the question of whether to have kids now or later –biological clock be damned — is a common one.<\/p>\n So too is the experience of catching a glimpse of the other side: Seeing a woman out in public with her kids, or up onstage at the top of her industry, and wondering if you chose wrong.<\/p>\n Ballerini got married to fellow singer Morgan Evans<\/a> at a relatively young age, when she was 24.<\/p>\n Read More<\/em>: Kelsea Ballerini Knew Her Marriage Was Over After a Kids Convo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The couple divorced in 2022, and in subsequent interviews, she has said that they differed on their timeline for having kids. She said that Evans wanted to be a parent sooner rather than later, claiming<\/a> he didn’t want to be an “old dad.”<\/p>\n But Ballerini wasn’t ready, and made a doctor’s appointment to talk about freezing her eggs, without telling Evans until afterward.<\/p>\n When she did tell him, her husband pushed back. It was one of the things that led her to rethink their marriage, she admits.<\/p>\n “And whether I’ll get there [to parenthood] or not, I don’t think it’s with this person if it is,” Ballerini remembers thinking. “And I think internally in hindsight, that’s where I went, like, ‘I think maybe we need to rethink this, Kels.'”<\/p>\n After her divorce, Ballerini and actor Chase Stokes dated for nearly three years before breaking up<\/a> in September 2025.<\/p>\n Nearly two months later, they were reportedly spotted holding hands<\/a> in two international locations — first in Scotland, then Croatia — but no official reports of a reconciliation have come out.<\/p>\n I sit in parks, it breaks my heart \/ ‘Cause I see just how far I am from the things that I want \/ Dad brought the picnic, Mom brought the sunscreen \/ Two kids are laughing and crying on red swings\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We look about the same age \/ But we don’t have the same Saturdays…<\/em><\/p>\n Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n Did I miss it? \/ By now is it a lucid dream \/ For chasing things a body clock doesn’t wait for? \/ I did the damn tour \/ It’s what I wanted, what I got \/ I spun around and then I stopped \/ And wondered if I missed the mark<\/em><\/p>\n So I sit in parks, sunglasses dark \/ And I hit the vape, hallucinate a nursery with Noah’s Ark \/ They lay on a blanket and God damnit, he loves her \/ I wonder if she wants my freedom like I wanna be a mother \/ But\u00a0<\/em>Rolling Stone says I’m on the right road \/ So I refill my Lexapro, thinking…<\/em><\/p>\n Repeat Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n So I sit in parks, checkin’ benchmarks \/ Tarryn’s due in June, the album’s due in March…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n See country music’s shortest marriages, including one that only last four days!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat Has Kelsea Ballerini Said About Wanting Children?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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