Mr. Rock and Roll

Album: This Is The Life (2007)
Charted: 12
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  • Amy MacDonald explained to the Liverpool Daily Post that this song is about people rather than music. She said: "The whole message is just be yourself. It's about two people who've been pretending to be something they're not in order to fit in with a certain group, and because of that, these amazing people who would have got on so well and made a brilliant couple pass each other by. Both of them have been feeling that they've had to fit in elsewhere, but they've missed out as a result."

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