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Buy at iTunes: http://bit.ly/18AYadK Jasmine Rae - Just Don't Ask Me How I Am (Audio Track). From the ARIA nominated album "If I Want To." (c) 2013 ABC Music. Written by Jasmine Rae and George Teren. Track produced by Luke Wooten at Station West Studios in Nashville.

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The captivating ballad was penned by Jasmine Rae while she was caring for her father during his battle with cancer.

"I'd noticed I was living my life day to day without really thinking about how I was feeling about the situation I was in", Jasmine recalls. "It turned into a song idea -- a bit of a sadder idea -- to bring in to George Teren, about avoiding the question of how I am."

Sitting down with Teren, a Nashville A-lister whose songs include hits for Tim McGraw and Gretchen Wilson, Jasmine found her emotional turmoil pouring out into the verses, but was surprised by the direction the song took.

"I didn't think it would go much deeper than just the things you do to avoid the question -- you can get up, go to work, be very functional. Just don't ask me how I am."

Jasmine had thought the song would stop there.
"George automatically wanted to write a chorus. I thought 'What would you write in a chorus? There is no chorus'. You write about how you are."

'Cause I'm lonely
And I'm weary
And I'm all torn up inside

"And I resisted. I didn't want to go that deep into how I was feeling. And I realized if I wasn't feeling that way, I wouldn't be writing a song called 'Just Don't Ask Me How I Am'".

The result is one of Jasmine's most moving and personal songs, and one of the highlights of the third studio album, "If I Want To".

"We went to some really deep and honest places in that chorus lyrically; and I think the song is better for it."