Slowly by James Morrison

Album: You're Stronger Than You Know (2019)

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James Morrison struggled for a long time to write the follow-up to his 2015 Higher Than Here album. His label at the time was pushing him to write uplifting music when he was in the pits of despair as his relationship with his long-term partner Gill was not going well.

Morrison feared he'd lost his songwriting mojo until he came up with this piano ballad, which tackles his unhappy upbringing with his parents which was affected by alcoholism and depression. "Trying to escape where you've come from is hard," said Morrison. "I was brought up in alcoholism and depression and that stuff is hard to fight against. There are a lot of people in the world who have lost or had difficulties with their parents. Being ultra-personal is quite difficult, but if it can help people I'll definitely leave it in."

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