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Album: Coming Up For Air (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • Most of Kodaline's lyrics are penned by vocalist Steve Garrigan. However, guitarist Mark Prendergast wrote the words for this track, which he said are about a friend of his who was suffering from really bad depression.

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