Sienna

Album

Submarine

Label

Nice Life Recording Company

Genre

Dream pop

Composer(s)

María Zardoya;Josh Conway

Entered Chart

Sep 20, 2025

Peak Date

Sep 27, 2025

Released

May 31, 2024

Inspired by the breakup of The Marias founders María Zardoya and Josh Conway, "Sienna" imagines the life of a child they never had. The song traces a bittersweet alternate reality, a life where love endured, where the couple built a life together, and perhaps had a daughter named Sienna with qualities drawn from both parents: free-spirited, sensitive, and imaginative. "Sienna would have acted like you, she would have jumped in the pool just like you, and she would have sang to all her pets like I do... but because we broke up, Sienna will never exist," Zardoya lamented to Variety. "And so at the very end where I sing, 'See her face in the forest, then it disappears,' it's like seeing the future you wanted just completely vanish." Why Sienna? On the Zach Sang Show, María said the choice was purely her own: "I was like, but if I did have a child with this person, I would name her Sienna." It wasn't a jointly agreed-upon name, just a quiet, private thought that became the seed for the song. The track is the closing song of The Marias' second album, Submarine, whose emotional narrative arc was shaped by Zardoya and Conway's personal breakup. If "No One Noticed" was the soundtrack to quietly navigating heartbreak, "Sienna" is its quiet, almost spectral cousin: a meditation on futures imagined and then lost. The Marias performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. María Zardoya was joined by a young girl representing Sienna, with nine additional children providing ethereal backing harmonies in a smoke-filled, almost dreamlike staging. The Jimmy Kimmel performance gave the song a push onto the charts, debuting at #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 for September 20, 2025, over 15 months after it first appeared on their Submarine album.

Please, tell me not to go
We've been here long before
I live under your eyelids
I'll always be yours
I'll lay on your rooftop
In the freezing cold
And I'll watch the sunset
Wearing all your clothes
I can feel you with me
Like I did before
Like when I sang you a love song
By Norah Jones

Ooh, Sienna
Would've been cute
Ooh, Sienna
Would've looked just like you

I came clean and it feels so good
But I feel seen only through you
I'll wait here tomorrow
Outside your door
Like I did in December

When you held me close
Coming up on your corner
Pulling out my hair
Hear the creak in the floorboards
Going up the stairs

Ooh, Sienna
Would've been cute
Ooh, Sienna
Would've looked just like you

With a temper like you
Run around like you
Jumping in the pool
Like you
Sing to all her pets
In the way I did
Be sensitive
Like you

And I smile when I think of
All the times we had
On the beach in the winter

When the waves were mad
Down by the water, crystal clear
See her face in the forest
Then it disappears