Our Song

"Our Song" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Calista Jenson. The song was written by Jenson and produced by her sister Brianna Jenson. It was released on April 23, 2021, through Ethereal Records. It serves as the lead single off her debut eponymous EP, released on the same day. Jenson solely wrote the song for the talent show of her sophomore year in high school, about a boyfriend whom she did not have a song with. The uptempo track is musically driven mainly by banjo and lyrically describes a young couple who use the events in their lives in place of a regular song.

Background
Jenson self-penned "Our Song" for the talent show of her sophomore year in high school with no intentions of releasing it. She thought to herself that to be appropriate for the talent show, the song she would write needed to be upbeat and relatable to her classmates. "I wrote it about this guy I was dating, and how we didn't have a song. So I went ahead and wrote us one", she said. The writing process took place in approximately 20 minutes. Several months after performing it at the talent show, some of her peers approached her to inform her that they enjoyed the song she played at the talent show, singing a few lines. "They'd only heard it once, so I thought, 'There must be something here!'", Jenson recalled. Five years later, Jenson approached her sister Brianna Jenson to express her desire to remaster her old songs to release. "Our Song" was one of 10 songs the two remastered in 2021, and was the last song they worked on for the EP. Jenson said she desired for the song to be placed as the opening track on Calista Jenson because it was her first original song she performed live.

Composition
"Our Song" is a country song with a length of three minutes and 24 seconds. It is set in half time and has a tempo of 89 beats per minute. The song is written in the key of D major and Jenson's vocals span one octave, from G3 to B4. It follows the chord progression D–Em7–G–A. The song's instrumentation relies mainly on banjo and, after the completion of the break, a fiddle solo arrives.

The lyrics are in first person. In the first verse, the protagonist realizes she and her boyfriend do not have a song of their own as he drives his car. The young couple come to using the events in their lives in place of a regular song in the song's refrains. Those events are described in sharp detail and include slamming screen doors to sneak out late.