In Your Hands

Album: Love Is A Four Letter Word (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Mraz told Spin magazine that this is "a song of longing." He explained: "I would call it a fictional tale, but it's based on real events, and it's about how there are plenty of things you can do that are great by yourself, but doing them with someone else is better."
  • Mraz told Billboard magazine this is "perhaps my favorite song that I've written." He explained: "It uses the least amount of words, but yet it paints the biggest pictures in my mind that I've been able to go to as far as where I like to go in romantics."

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