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Album: Chasing Lights (2008)
Charted: 4
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Songfacts®:

  • Band member Vanessa said of this reflective ballad to The Daily Mail January 2, 2009: "We love doing upbeat songs, but we wanted to do a slower number that reflected the album as a whole."
  • When this ballad was first released to radio programmers, the lyric, "I can't decide if I should slap you" was misheard as "I can't decide if I should stab you." A new radio edit was made, with the phrase amended to "leave you" as their record company feared the original lyric would decrease radio play and sales for promoting violence. Frankie of The Saturdays commented to The Daily Mail: "We knew that we were singing 'slap,' so we didn't pay much attention to it at first. But we changed the lyrics to have a clean conscience."

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