Because it’s weird we were touring for two years before this song, and I had thought, right it’s has already reached a point of … In the UK we were doing rooms of 2000 people, and it was great. LC: No I didn’t think this song would take us as far as it’s taken us. G: Did you know the song would be so big? I wanted to keep it broad for people to find their own thing. I just didn’t want write about me again necessarily, so directly about me, and my experiences. So if someone who is listening to it had lost someone through being bereaved, they could find something in it, and again the relationship thing and all that. The thing that I found easiest for me to write about it, was to keep it quite broad, so you could apply those different scenarios to it. So once we started messing around with that idea, it came really quickly. And the way I would do it, what is it, “oh I’m so sad someone in my family died.” But for me it’s one of those things I wanted to write a song about loss, and the feeling of losing someone, whether that be through a relationship or bereavement, or even just as simple as your friends from school who you no longer speak to anymore because you both just grew up and grew apart. Yeah, even that I was kind of like, “I don’t really want to write a song about death, I think it’s very morbid”. So people like my grandmother had snuffed it, and a bunch of other people had popped the clogs, if you will. So yeah, that for me was a light bulb moment, and one of the things I hadn’t written about was people in my life who had died over the course of me making this album. Which sounds very simple, but once you’ve been doing it for three years, writing about that same relationship, it’s very hard to get yourself out of that space. And then, I think it was one of them that said, “you know you don’t have to write a song about your relationship that broke up”. And yeah, it was the same kind of thing of me being, writing about that relationship that had already been, and it was like “this is f**king”, it just wasn’t clicking. So I show them these melodies, and they were like “cool, let’s work on this, this seems like it’s got legs”. I’m thinking I’m writing for songs that were going to be on that album. And they like “let’s try something else”, because they had that idea moving, they were like “do you want to try another thing.” I am thinking at this point, album two. So cut-forward to six months after I wrote the original melodies, I’m in a session with friends of mine called TMS and Romans, and we’re just messing about with this other idea that’s very uncharacteristically for me, upbeat and very happy.
So I find just trying to write a song like that because I thought that is what people would want to hear, and I was like fuck it, I just won’t do it. And basically a lot of my album was completely written about an old relationship that I’d had, and by this point two years after, three years actually after it had happened I didn’t really care, not that I didn’t care about it anymore do you know what I mean, but I’d written everything I could want to write about that relationship and how it broke up. So I recorded it and almost forgot about it for a while, and then found it again and tried to write lyrics and nothing was coming. But even then, I’d been at it for four hours and it was three in the morning, and I was like “fuck this I’m going to bed”.
But then by the last 15 minutes, I just managed to get the verse, pre-chorus and chorus melody for “Someone You Loved” in a really short spurt.
So thank God for that! But then I was just mucking about and I sat at the piano for about, I think it was about four hours or something and nothing was coming whatsoever so I hated myself for three hours and 45 mins. I had started doing it, my album was finished and then I had just started to just kind of thrown down ideas and be like “I wonder if there’s anything else that I could, anything else going on in there”, and thank fuck I did because the album would have bombed without it. Lewis Capaldi: So the first ever studio session I had for the song was actually in a shed in my back garden. Speaking to music publication about the track, Lewis Capaldi discussed his inspiration behind the track as well as the public’s reaction to it: “Someone You Loved” was released on the 8th November 2018 by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi, as a part of his late 2018 EP “Breach”, and later his debut album “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent”, which was released in May 2019.
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