Set Me Free

Album: Joy (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Dobson wrote this song with Jon Levine, who is a singer/songwriter best known as keyboardist and primary songwriter for the Canadian band Philosopher Kings.
  • Dobson explained in an interview with the Canadian telecommunications company Telus why this is the most meaningful track on Joy for her: "Set Me Free is definitely the most meaningful to me. It's one of the first songs I did and it was very therapeutic for me. It was as if I had pleaded to be freed from all the negative things, the invisible things which imprison me. I wanted to be released by writing this song."

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