Album: Come to Life (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the first single from Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia's fourth studio album, Come to Life.
  • The song was co-produced and co-written by Chris Martin. The Coldplay singer worked with Imbruglia on three tracks from Come to Life. She told BBC News: "He's very generous, he just rang up and I thought he was just going to send me a song but he was like, 'No, I want us to work together and develop it together'."
  • The song's subject matter is moving on from a former lover.
  • During the middle eight of this track, Imbruglia sings some lyrics from her 2007 song "Be With You."

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