Magnetised

Album: Wrong Crowd (2016)
Charted: 40
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  • This was released as the lead single from Tom Odell's Wrong Crowd album. "I always feel like an outsider," he told The Sun. "Everywhere I go, I always feel I don't belong there. I think a songwriter needs to look inwards through the frosty glass."

    "It's like the idea when you are in a train or car and suddenly you can see the sea," Odell continued. "There seems to be this yearning for nature in these songs such as 'Sparrow,' 'Concrete' and 'Magnetised.' There's a line in 'Magnetised' 'I wish I had a little mother nature in me,' which is about the yearning for simplicity again."

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