Beside You

Album: Who We Used To Be (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • James Blunt has been married to the mother of his two sons, Sofia Wellesley, since 2014. "Beside You" is a rock ballad where he sings of finding love and happiness after a long period of searching. "It's a bit of a celebration," Blunt said. "An upbeat banger about finally being with the one you've been searching for your whole life."
  • Blunt uses religious terminology throughout the song. He starts by explaining he had relationships with several girls but none of them lasted.

    Oh, Lord, here I go
    I get the highs, but why the lows?
    Set me up with all these souls
    And I watch them fall like dominoes


    Now he's met his soulmate, the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with.

    I hope there's a song that God only knows
    And it's keeping me dancing
    Nobody here knows how the melody goes
    But it's keeping me dancing beside you
  • James Blunt wrote "Beside You" with James Essien (Tom Grennan's "Here,"Clean Bandit's "Don't Leave Me Lonely") and Richard Boardman along with Pablo Bowman and David Strääf of the Manchester-based songwriting collective The Six (Jonas Blue, Bebe Rexha, Anne-Marie). Ennio Morricone also gets a credit as it samples one of his melodies.

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