Water by Pentatonix

Album: Pentatonix (2015)

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PTX soprano Kirstin Maldonado is suffering from some "can't sleep love" as she stays up late pondering how to deal with her love life. Should she share her true feelings and risk driving him away? "I can't take this any longer. I need, I need you like water," she sings.

Maldonado found inspiration in her journal and wrote the song with the help of bandmate Kevin Olusola and singer-songwriter Audra Mae. She explained: "Songwriting is a very vulnerable process for me, but I had never really done it with anyone else before; it's always been like me and my journal, like writing a bunch of lyrics. So, it was with Kevin and Audra Mae, who is like the nicest, most open person ever; I like felt very comfortable with her and I was like: 'Oh, erm, I have this idea that I like kind of believe in.' I don't know… I had like written all the entire song but didn't know how to like really produce it and make it really special. I had it more like bubbly imaging and then Kevin brought in all the beats and so it completely rerouted how I expected the song to go but it was obviously really amazing and brought it to where it needed to be."

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J.r. from Amarillo TexasSuch a beautiful song, and the meaning is absolutely wonderful.... I fully expect this will become a common wedding song.

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