That song was written when I was away in a house in Sussex in like the country in the UK.
One of the girls that I’m quite close with, a writer, came down and started this idea
based on kind of like stuff that we’ve been through and that we’ve got each other through
over the past year.
She’d been through this awful break up and like real low.
She started the idea when I wasn’t in the room.
She played it to me.
I listened and I was just blown away.
I was like, “Did you write that for me, or…”
She was like, “Yeah.”
It was kind of like you know what?
At any given point, no matter what, I’ll be there.
If I can’t be in the country, I’ll be on the phone.
No matter what, there’ll be somebody there for you.
You know when you’ve like come home and you’re on your own and you’re going through
a hard time?
And you kind of just let go a little bit.
And then you stop yourself and you get on with it.
I feel like we’ve all had that whether we admit it or not.
ANd I think that’s that moment of like coming home and realizing that, “Okay."
"I gotta do this but I gotta do this for me."
I think sometimes people think that their issues aren’t enough to justify a feeling
and they hold it in.
People forget that everybody has the right to feel shit and has the right to feel broken
no matter what it is.
No matter how big.
No matter how small.
That’s where I feel like it is good to just be real with your feelings and not hide away
from it.
‘Cause the more you talk about it, the more people are gonna reach out.
When I was 21, I went through a really shit time.
It was like that time where everybody was at university creating their paths and their
journeys, and I was kind of not an academic.
And I was really trying to do this thing called music.
There was a period of like six months where I’ve never felt so alone in my life, but
it kind of urged me to like flip my shit around and realize that I’m actually being a bit stupid.
And I just need to kind of fix
up and work.
Feeling lost is like the thought of jumping into water and there’s no way out and it’s
deep and you don’t know what’s to come.
That’s the kind of vision I had when I wrote this.
It’s dark.
It’s scary.
And you feel alone.
But that feeling and that vision of somebody’s hand coming for you and pulling you out, as
cheesy as it may sound, that was the vision for that moment.
Even if you’re at the darkest point, at the lowest low,
It's gonna be okay.