You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

Before we start, I want to mention that in this episode, there are some discussions of themes that might be difficult for some.

Sexual harassment and assault, as well as a mention of rape and suicide. Please use your best discretion.

Laura Marling is a singer and songwriter from London. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist,

which has been nominated five times for that, along with the Mercury Prize and the Grammy for Best Vocal.

Since 2008, she has released seven albums. The most recent is called Song for Our Daughter.

That's also the name of the song that she takes apart in this episode.

I spoke to Laura while she was in her home studio in London.

Only to see if the path they said fails.

My name is Laura Marling.

This is the longest I've ever taken to write a record.

You know, I started very young. I put out my first album when I was 17 and I'm now 30.

When I was young, in a really wonderful way, and I think everybody experiences this when they're young,

you're kind of a functioning narcissist in that you have this experience of the world in which you

are the central character. I think that's wonderful because I think that is full of colour and vibrancy

and it's a very necessary experience when you're young.

But there was maybe an accumulation of events that led to this sort of next right of passage

as a person. I metabolised a few experiences that I'd had as a younger woman that were very complex

and in some ways undigestable. The experience of somebody trampling a boundary

that you weren't even aware needed to be policed.

And the sort of traumatic effect of that experience can have the effect of taking you out of

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