Carly Pearce spoke about her vulnerable new ballad — including an update on her mom — during an appearance on CBS Mornings.

Pearce, 35, caught up with co-hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson on Wednesday (December 10). She spoke about her newest single, “Dream Come True.” She wrote it with Lauren Hungate, Tofer Brown and Emily Weisband, and produced it with Ben West. Pearce said “every line in the song is my story,” including the four-bedroom house at the end of a cul-de-sac, seeing her name in front page news, and her mother’s illness. She sings at the end of the song, "my mama's sick," and "it's gettin' too hard to come to my shows like she used to."

“You also write about your mom’s health, and how she can’t always be at your shows, but she means so much to you. When you played this song for your parents, how did they respond?” Burleson asked Pearce during the CBS Mornings interview. King also jumped in to express her concern for the country star’s mom, who appeared in a photo on screen.

“She’s doing actually really, really well,” Pearce said. “But I wanted people to hear that part, and when I played it for them, my parents have only heard the song once because they couldn’t handle it. But you know, it’s this real moment where my mom moved me to Nashville when I was 15 years old. She’s helped me so much. And now the very thing that we wanted to happen to me has almost kept me from being able to help take care of her in times, and she’s not able to be with me. And again, it’s just all these different things that are realizations as you get older and as you realize what’s important in life.”

Pearce shared that she wrote “Dream Come True” about a year ago because of the “high highs,” “and “low lows” she’s experienced in her career.she said she “really needed to figure out why did I want to do music in the first place? I needed to reconnect with the dream.” The singer-songwriter said she also found herself “surrounded by women my age that had husbands and a family, and this life that I didn’t even realize that I wanted until that moment.

“And everybody has had to sacrifice something in their life,” Pearce said later. “That’s kind of the universal message for me, and I hope that people like me are more willing to say that. …Even the stories, I feel like fans, when they relate to these songs, it helps me not feel alone. It’s like one big therapy session where you’re like, ‘oh yeah. We all may have different lives and our lives may look different…but we’re all living the same human experience underneath it all.’ And I think that’s important to make sure fans feel that way.”

Pearce said in a statement via her record label that “Dream Come True” is “about the sacrifices we make when chasing our dreams. If you’ve ever felt that push and pull, know that you’re not alone. Writing this song has allowed me to return to my original dream, to reconnect with my roots and why I first fell in love with singing Country music.”

Pearce released “Dream Come True” as she gets ready for her fifth studio record, following 2024’s hummingbird (she released the deluxe edition, hummingbird: no rain, no flowers earlier his year). Pearce teased during her CBS Mornings interview that is on the way “really soon,” and “January’s gonna be fun.” Watch the full interview below.

Todd Matthews