Explosions

Album: Halcyon (2012)
Charted: 13 100
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Songfacts®:

  • Ellie Goulding penned this strings-laden ballad about her father, Arthur, who divorced her mum when she was five. The "Lights" songstress sings about how he was missing as she grew up and how he does not have her in his life anymore.
  • Goulding penned the song with John Fortis. The writer/producer previously collaborated with the 2010 Brit Award Winner on two tracks from her debut album, Lights, "Guns & Horses" and "Every Time You Go."

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