Kelsea Ballerini 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.

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 Mount Pleasant.

In its lyrics, Ballerini wonders if she's missed her chance to become a mother.

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.

" By now is it a lucid dream? / For chasing things a body clock doesn't wait for ?" Ballerini asks in the chorus of the s

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