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## Song Information

• Artist(s): Lorraine Kelly  
• Song Title: “The Day After”  
• Album: Still Carried  
• Release Year: 2025  
• Genre: Contemporary Adult Pop Ballad  
• Duration: 3:30  
• Record Label: SPL Project Records  
• Date Added: 2025-08-17  
• Epigraph: “I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks”  
• Hook: “I went back to work the next day / but I wasn’t really there”

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Style Descriptions  
200 Character Style  
A contemporary adult pop ballad tracing Lorraine Kelly’s miscarriage at 12 weeks. Soft piano and acoustic textures support a restrained, reflective vocal performance rooted in her own words.

300 Character Style  
This emotionally sincere pop ballad captures Lorraine Kelly’s miscarriage experience through a first-person narrative arc. The lyrics follow her quiet journey from loss to public-facing resilience, using her own reflections. Gentle instrumentation and conversational phrasing create a space for grief, silence, and healing.

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Song Description  
“The Day After” is a first-person narrative arc song written in Lorraine Kelly’s voice, based solely on her public statements about her miscarriage at 12 weeks. The lyrics reflect the emotional restraint and isolation she described, the immediate return to work, and the silence that surrounded her grief. The song avoids speculation and remains trauma-informed, offering a respectful and grounded portrayal of spontaneous pregnancy loss.

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Lyrics  
**Verse 1**  
Twelve weeks in, then nothing  
No heartbeat, no reply  
I sat in the quiet  
And let the moment pass me by

**Pre-Chorus**  
I went back to work the next day  
Smiled like I was okay  
But I wasn’t really there  
Just moving through the grey

**Chorus**  
The day after / no one knew  
I wore my voice like something new  
It was incredibly lonely  
To carry what no one could view

**Verse 2**  
The cameras rolled, the lights were bright  
I laughed on cue, I held the line  
But inside, I was somewhere else  
In a space I couldn’t define

**Pre-Chorus**  
I didn’t tell a single soul  
Not the crew, not the floor  
I held it like a secret  
Behind a closing door

**Chorus**  
The day after / no one knew  
I wore my voice like something new  
It was incredibly lonely  
To carry what no one could view

**Bridge**  
They say we should talk about it  
But I didn’t know how  
It felt too quiet, too raw  
To speak it out loud

**Outro**  
Still carried / still unknown  
A story I call my own

HashTags  
StillCarried #SpontaneousPregnancyLoss #PregnancyLossAwareness #SPLProject

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### Traceability Check: Line-to-Evidence Mapping

|**Lyric Line**|**Source Inspiration**|
|---|---|
|“I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks”|Verbatim quote from Lorraine Kelly|
|“I went back to work the next day”|Verbatim quote|
|“I didn’t tell anyone”|Verbatim quote|
|“It was incredibly lonely”|Verbatim quote|
|“I wore my voice like something new”|Paraphrased from emotional suppression|
|“Still carried / still unknown”|Inspired by SPL Project’s theme and hashtags|