Songfacts®:

• "Brave" finds Ella Henderson being there for someone in need of support.
  
  You can pray for me, I'm gonna pray for you
  And even when it hurts baby, I'll be brave for you
  
  The message behind the song is, there's no shame in asking for help when you need it. "It is OK not to be OK," Henderson told The Sun's Bizarre column, "and it is OK to not be strong all the time."
• Henderson wrote the song back in the 2010s with Jennifer Decilveo (Andra Day's "Rise Up," Anne-Marie's "Ciao Adios," Demi Lovato's "I Love Me") and producer Jordan Riley (The Vamps' "Hair Too Long," Paloma Faith's "Better Than This," Mabel's "I Belong To Me").
• "Brave" was the song that earned Henderson a recording contract with Asylum Records' imprint Major Toms in late 2018.
• Henderson first teased the song on social media on August 17, 2019, and debuted it at her live show at Hoxton Hall in November 2019. She released it as the lead single from Everything I Didn't Say on January 7, 2022.
• Henderson dedicated the single to her close friend, Paige Dougall, who'd passed away two days before its release following a two-year battle with bone cancer. Paige and Ella collaborated on a song "I'm Going Through Hell," about the teenage Scottish singer's cancer battle.
• Plum Stupple-Harris directed the poignant video. Inspired by the director's own mother, it stars actress Aimée Kelly as a single mom struggling to cope with the rigors of everyday life. "I think in order to be a mum you have to become stronger than anyone else around you," Stupple-Harris told Promo News. "Which is often why mums are the last people to seek support and care for themselves - there is always someone smaller and more vulnerable to prioritize. Mums rock!"