The Only Reason

Album: She Looks So Perfect (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • 5SOS's Michael Clifford wrote this breakup Rock ballad in Los Angeles with Steve Robson. The English songwriter has a large number of hits on his resume. They include collaborations with Take That on their BRIT Award-winning number, "Shine," Rascal Flatts' on their successful American tune "What Hurts The Most" and with Olly Murs on several of his singles including his Transatlantic hit "Troublemaker."
  • Michael Clifford described this to MTV News as a, "kind of a lyrical, lyrically heavy song." He added, "It's quite mature."

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