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• "The Other Side of Goodbye" closes out Amy Grant's 2026 album The Me That Remains. It's a family affair in the truest sense, a collaboration between Grant and her daughters, Sarah Cannon and Corrina Gill, built around the memory of Grant's mother's death.
• Grant's mother, Gloria, passed away in April 2011 after living with Lewy body dementia, spending her final three weeks in hospice care at Amy's house. Shortly before she died, Grant gathered her three sisters for a "girls' night in" around the bed, where each brought 10 memories to share, spending the evening telling stories, laughing, crying, and making peace with old wounds.
  
  The moment Gloria passed changed Grant's entire perspective on dying. Her mother had been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours when, as the family sang around her, she suddenly opened her eyes wide with an expression of pure, childlike wonder.
  
  "I wanted to capture the experience of being a witness to her crossing over," Grant told Billboard. "That day changed the way I look at death. I was like, 'We've got to reframe this.' When somebody finishes their life, can we high-five them? And with everything in life, how you frame it has a lot to do with how you experience it."
  
  "No kidding, the first thing I did was grab my phone and tried to take a picture of her face," Grant added to Taste of Country Nights. "Not everybody dies that way, but she did, and that song just tries to capture that."
• The title came almost by accident. While hosting a gathering at her Tennessee farm during the final summer of a long-running camp ministry, a guest mentioned looking through photographs from the week. Grant casually replied that they could talk about it "on the other side of goodbye." A friend in the room recognized the phrase as a great song title and told her to write it down.
  
  That phrase became the heartbeat of the track: viewing death as a passage rather than a total dead end.
• Grant wrote the song with Tom Douglas, the Hall of Fame Nashville songwriter who also co-wrote Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me" and Tim McGraw's "Southern Voice."
• Bringing her daughters in to sing on the track turns a reflection on loss into a multi-generational family milestone. "Vince jokes that he is going to buy a school bus and we can all tour together like the Partridge Family," Grant told The Sun. "Hearing two of my daughters singing on that song, which was inspired by my own mother's passing, is something that I will always treasure."
• "The Other Side of Goodbye" picks up a thread Grant has been tracing for years. Her 2013 album How Mercy Looks From Here was largely shaped by Gloria's illness, including on the title track and "Don't Try So Hard." Meanwhile, her 2010 project Somewhere Down the Road featured "Unafraid," another track directly tied to her mother. Where those earlier songs focused on the pain of watching a parent slowly fade, this one steps back a decade later to focus on the peaceful final moment of transition.
• As the closing track on The Me That Remains, the song brings the record full circle. The album opens with the social turmoil of "The 6th Of January (Yasgur's Farm)," moves through Grant's physical recovery on the title track, and wrestles with grief on "How Do We Get There From Here." Ending with her daughters singing about her mother reframes the whole journey around family and healing.