Let Your Tears Fall

Album: Piece by Piece (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • This ghostly Sia and Greg Kurstin penned song was the very first track Clarkson recorded for her Piece By Piece album. She laid it down while on tour with Maroon 5 in 2013. Clarkson told VH1: "I got it from Greg [Kurstin], my producer, and he works a lot with Sia. Her project had just finished and he told me they wrote this song and wanted me to hear it."

    "I fell in love with it! I just love the message. It’s about having that person in your life - or people in your life - who can be a shoulder to cry on, or if you want to bitch about something, or anything. So I love having those people in your life, and this song is for that person."
  • The song touches on the same themes of trusting in relationships as several of the other Piece By Piece cuts, including the title track. Clarkson is happily married to her manager Brandon Blackstock, but until they met the singer had been so scarred by her father abandoning her family when she was young, she had doubted whether there were any nice, reliable men out there. "I didn't even know a guy existed that wouldn't abandon you at some point," she told UK newspaper The Metro. "When your father does that, and they're supposed to be the one that loves you the most, you're like: 'Oh God, if they didn't then surely no one else will.'"

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