Reach Out

Album: Into Colour (2014)
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  • Rumer penned this song for her romantic and songwriting partner Rob Shirakbari, who was going through a tough time. "'Reach Out' is a song about depression and how to reach people when it's hard to be reached," she explained to Billboard magazine. "I'm someone who suffers from clinical depression. I can go for quite long stretches of being okay, but I still know what it's like being in the hole. So 'Reach Out' is about that one person saying to a friend or someone you love that, 'I understand where you are right now, but you need to hang on to me and recognize me and who I am and that I love you, 'cause I'm gonna pull you out.'"

    "It's about compassion and friendship and how we're all gonna be down at different times," Rumer added, "and we just have to help each other and pull each other out."

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