Thing is, I used to not talk about what this song meant at my shows, because a lot of people
thought it was a love song.
About someone just leaving you and not coming back.
Which is so great, because what you write can mean something different for someone else,
and help them in a completely different way.
But then, I tell more people what it's about, and they're like, “Oh.”
I’ve read so many messages about what this song has done for people, and it's really
beautiful.
This matters, I get it from here.
I wrote Goodbyes when I was 16.
I wrote it with a guy called Ed Thomas.
It was one of my first sessions I did when I used to come up to London from Walsall.
I just remember the room in this like really sterile white wall room in some recording
studio space, but it was tiny, but we made this beautiful song.
The day before, me and my friend lost a friend.
I wrote this song for her, because she was really upset, because she never messaged him
back.
I realized how upset she was.
I'm not good with people crying around me.
I mean, I cry loads, but I don't like, I don't know what to do when people are sad.
So, I write my songs and.
I just thought, because she loves to listening to me, so I wrote it and then I sent it to
her straight away, and she like was really happy with it.
We were thinking about, you know like funerals sometimes bells ring, you hear the birds in
the background at funerals and stuff.
The birds will be last song that would be for that person.
How could we know there wouldn't be tomorrow, because you don't know?
I mean, you never know.
Things are inevitable, I do think that, and I think that's how I get happy.
I mean, I do get sad, but I think if you think some things are written already and are going
to happen regardless, you can't really change stuff that's going to happen.
So, if you look at things that way, it's a bit more positive.
I think we have different stages in our life, obviously, and, I don't know.
I look back on things, I think, "Oh, that was a chapter of my time, a crazy chapter."
I don't know, a stupid chapter.
I don't know.
Right now it's a cool chapter.
Chapter cool.
I think this song is like two worlds, you know?
The person is gone in real life, but then they're always around you.
You always think about them, they'll be in your thoughts.
Might be in your dreams, and they'll always come up in conversation.
They won't come back, but you'll see them again.
It's so difficult, because death is so sad and everyone deals with it so differently.
Life's so weird and things happen and you think, "Why?"
But, then you have to think, "Okay, it had to."
The second verse is the same melody.
It follows it, but when I see it live, it's a bit more stronger, because I'm more annoyed.
You know when people around you can just try and be there for you, and just be like, "Everything
will be okay."
But, they don't feel how you do, so it gets a bit annoying when everyone says that.
"It'll be okay."
Do you know what it is?
I'm actually very good at stopping myself crying, yeah.
I cry over stupid stuff though.
I do get in my feelings.
A lot.
Crying doesn't make me look nice, and my make up will run, or I'll just look red.
It's not cute.