Losing Sleep

Album: Tribute (2013)
Charted: 48
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Songfacts®:

  • The third single from John Newman's Tribute album finds him singing about being left alone racked with fear and paranoia, "like a child scared of the night." Newman wrote the song with British songwriter Steve Booker, whom he also collaborated with on "Love Me Again" and American pop hitmaker Benny Blanco, whose resumé includes Kesha's "TiK ToK" and Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream."

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