Not Today

Album: Me Before You (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This acoustic-based song is the lead single for the Me Before You soundtrack. Based on the book by Jojo Moyes, the movie stars Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke, who falls for a recently paralyzed man, played by Sam Claflin of The Hunger Games series.
  • The song is about someone going through hard times. They are assured that things will get easier thanks to love, but the track's title appears to suggest that's not going to happen "today." The song reflects the suffering and the love shown in the film, wherein a young caretaker forms a strong connection with a quadriplegic that she's been hired to take care of.

Comments: 4

  • Tracy Colmar from LondonI watched the film a while back and have seen it a few times since, always makes me cry, but the song didn't really have an impact on me until last year when my lovely husband John died suddenly from cancer. As the lyrics say it will get easier but not today and that is how I still feel 8 months along the line. We have celebrated fathers day, his birthday, my son and daughters birthday without him and Christmas. The latest things to happen will be Valentines Day and my birthday. The day he died I lost my best friend and my children lost their dad. So I can definitely relate to this.
  • Blackpearl from NigeriaThe movie is heartbreakingly sad
  • Anonymous from IndiaThe movie broke my heart
  • Dorothy from Henderson, NevadaObsessed with this song, so great.. love imagine dragons.. will is so selfless wanting to leave something lasting to Lou. How humbling.. memorable movie.
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