someone you loved/Lewis Capaldi/Alternative/Indie, Pop/English, Lyrics

"I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved." Those pained words Lewis Capaldi sings in the chorus of his tender ballad 'Someone You Loved' transformed him into a superstar. Despite being just 22 years of age when the song came out, Capaldi showed a unique talent and tenderness that touched the hearts of millions.Lewis Capaldi wrote 'Someone You Loved' himself, surprisingly given the song's mature sound, which only points to his individual talent as a songwriter. Though, he wasn't too keen on the song, having mulled over whether or not to pursue it over the course of six months and very nearly ditching it entirely. Talking to the Daily Star not long after the song came out, he said he wrote the melodies for the track but didn't like it and stopped, later picking up the composition again. "I kept revisiting it over the months and still thinking, 'this isn't good enough still,' and I was almost trashing the song every single time." What concerned Capaldi the most about 'Someone You Loved' is that he felt it was similar to other songs he'd written in terms of lyrics, telling Billboard: "I had written the breakup song so many times that I was like, 'I can't write about this again." In an interview with NME, Lewis admitted: "A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that." "I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody." ltimately the song is about reflection and loss, but the cause of the loss Lewis Capaldi is writing about comes from two different - and heartbreaking - experiences in his life. The piano-centred ballad sees Lewis mourning the loss of a relationship, and expressing to his former partner how much he misses being loved by her, in what he has described as the saddest song he's ever written. Explaining in an interview with The Courier, the song describes "that feeling when you start getting to know someone and things have been going really well but you've been reluctant to be as open as you like with stuff in the past and all that." He added that the lyrics explore his fears of being vulnerable with his partners, saying that as "soon as you let them in something goes wrong", as though he was anticipating they'd leave him just as soon as he was getting used to being loved. 'Someone You Loved' was also the product of Lewis' grief after an earth-shattering family bereavement: when his grandmother passed away. The Scottish singer explained in an interview with NME that he was "bored of talking about myself" and thought to put his feelings into words. Throughout the writing and production of his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, a couple of his family members passed away and he "wanted to write a song that could be applicable to both my relationship ending, which I was writing a lot about, and then this bereavement thing.".. ‪@harithmusic‬