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“Maine,” the closing track of Noah Kahan’s Cape Elizabeth EP, is a nostalgic song reflecting a lost relationship. It picks up the story told in “Glue Myself Shut” about a couple from Maine finding that their relationship isn’t working out and breaking up. The lyrics explore the feeling of “wanting to go back to that simpler time” of being together.
As Kahan mentioned in an interview, Maine was a song he worked on for multiple years, starting in 2017 and finishing it only a few weeks before its release.
“Maine” premiered in a series of Instagram live streams Kahan did while self-isolating with his family home in Vermont during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020.
"“Maine” just felt like the perfect closer sonically, and also, just speaking to that kind of simplicity of going back to an easier time. “Maine” is about two people who used to be together – used to be with each other – and are in very different places, and the perspective of one person wanting to go back to that simpler time, and reconsidering the aspirations that took him away in the first place. I feel that; I really feel that, and I wanted to explore that idea, but also do it in the lens of this Cape Elizabeth concept."
– Noah Kahan in an interview with Atwood Magazine
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