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• Sounds Good Feels Good producer John Feldmann wrote this with 5SOS vocalist Luke Hemmings and bassist Calum Wood. Feldmann recalled the story of the song to Fuse TV: "It had just rained in Los Angeles - it only rains ten days a year, so it was such a special day," he said. Calum had come in and he already had the lyrics and the melody. He changed the key of the chorus and it clicked."
  
  "We had this Third Eye Blind, pop-punk chorus that really worked. We ended up writing a song about a perfect day: It just rained so it felt like London, we were in California so we were talking about the ocean," Feldmann continued. "Luke came up with the lyrics 'open ocean,' and I fought him with that. What the f--k does that even mean? You're in the middle of the ocean on a boat? Where does that connect with this goddamn song? He forced it through and in hindsight, I'm glad he did."
  
  "Luke wrote the bridge," he added. "If you even wonder where Luke comes from as a musician, just listen to the bridge in "Fly Away" and that is him. It's a Foo Fighters, driving, guitar-driven rock tune."