Absolute

Album: The Fray (2009)
Charted: 70
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Songfacts®:

  • This melancholy, minor-keyed number about love lost was inspired by the fact that since the band's 2005 debut set How to Save a Life, there had been no shortage of real-life experiences to influence the storytelling. Guitarist Joe King explained in publicity materials: "With success, you have a lot more drama. For me, it was extreme highs in career and extreme lows in a relationship. There were really obvious things to write about."

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