 Genius Meanings
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Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote this after watching 500 Days Of Summer though it wasn’t actually about it or based on
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Gabrielle Aplin – Don't Say
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[Verse 1] / Don't say / "What's the matter, babe, are you okay?" / I'll send them all away 'cause it's too late / Just hanging by a single thread / And don't dare / Take me in your
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Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me - The RAK Sessions
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[Verse 1] / Summer comes, winter fades / Here we are, just the same / Don't need pressure, don't need change / Let's not give the game away / There used to be an empty space / A
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Gabrielle Aplin – Home
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her album English Rain on a blog post.
I’ve definitely written about Home before. I had the chorus for about a year before I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Rings Round Roses
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[Verse 1] / I guess it’s funny how things change / I turn the corner and your life has turned a page / I saw the story in your eyes begin to fade / Before you hit the ground / I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Don't Know What I Want
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[Verse 1] / Is it enough just to see me cry? / Come take my tears 'cause I walked you through hell / All I want is to make it right / Calling on Astraea to come balance the scales
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Gabrielle Aplin – Miss You
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“Miss You” reads as a song about missing a long-lost friend/lover, but as Aplin explains (see below) it is also a letter to a former version of herself.
The track is Aplin’s first
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Gabrielle Aplin – Ready to Question
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote this song a little while ago. I was in Hertfordshire with two friends (Tom and Nick
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Gabrielle Aplin – Wake Up with Me
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[Verse 1] / It's hard to make a change / Think of all the lies that we've been told / Everything we have can all be gone before you know / And all I wanna say / Is that we've been
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Gabrielle Aplin – Until the Sun Comes Up
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“Until the Sun Comes Up” introduces the tone of the album perfectly; it encapsulates the serious issue of caring for yourself mentally, of letting worries go and having a great
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Gabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy
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Whilst I was writing “Dear Happy”, I was thinking I was writing a letter to happiness. It’s more about writing a letter to yourself, or your past/present/future self. You know
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Gabrielle Aplin – Alive
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Kinda like Salvation, I was going through a time last year that I’d never gone through before
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Gabrielle Aplin – You Don't Like Dancing
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[Verse 1] / Follow me / Carelessly / Leave our plans on the back seat / Chase the lines / Two at a time / Open your eyes / Do you remember me? / [Pre-Chorus] / You don't like
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Gabrielle Aplin – Anyway
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[Intro] / Anyway, anyway, I'm feeling, mm, mm-mm, hm / Anyway, anyway, ba, da, da / [Verse 1] / I can't decipher my feelings / I should've bottled them all / But I spilled them on
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Gabrielle Aplin – Waking up Slow
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Described as an “a-ha!” moment, Aplin’s lead off single to a new EP has our narrator come to the realization they’ve fallen head over heels for someone they used to see as a friend
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Gabrielle Aplin – Say Nothing
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The second track off of Aplin’s Avalon EP. Uploaded to YouTube on October 5th, 2017, this song is about the ending of a relationship due to a partner being unable to make an excuse
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Gabrielle Aplin – Salvation
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
It’s about someone or something entering your life just at the right time and pulling you
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Gabrielle Aplin – Slip Away
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[Verse 1] / Locked inside my mind, passing time / With nothing to lose / Trying to find a reason to fight / With nothing to prove / I’ve been waiting for the light to glow
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Gabrielle Aplin – Sweet Nothing
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[Verse 1] / The rain starts falling, when you're calling me / Why can't you see? / I'm diving underwater just to breathe / [Pre-Chorus] / And I'm feeling lonely / I'm feeling blue
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Gabrielle Aplin – My Mistake
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“My Mistake” is the first single from Gabrielle Aplin’s third album, Dear Happy. It is a piano ballad about accepting and owning your flaws.
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Gabrielle Aplin – How Do You Feel Today?
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote this as a poem at first and then decided to put the words to music. It’s about
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Gabrielle Aplin – Keep On Walking
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
This was the most spontaneous song on the album and was probably written the quickest, it
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Gabrielle Aplin – Evaporate
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[Verse 1] / Flesh and bone wrapped up in skin / Kept alive by oxygen / But right now, breathing is so tough / They say they know what I can feel / And time will find a way to heal
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Gabrielle Aplin – Invisible
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[Verse 1] / Laying wide awake 'cause I've got so much to say / I'm trying to trace that look on your face (Mm) / When I bring it up, you say that nothing has changed / But
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Gabrielle Aplin – November
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
November isn’t about a personal situation, or anything that specifically happened to me. It
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Gabrielle Aplin – Keep Pushing Me
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[Verse 1] / Every time I see your face / I'm lost for words, I don't know what to say / You're smiling at me like a wolf / I close my eyes as my skin crawls away / You can keep on
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Gabrielle Aplin – Like You Say You Do
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The latest single off of forthcoming album Dear Happy, Aplin desires more out of her partner than sweet nothings and empty words.
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Gabrielle Aplin – Human
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Human is a really universal song. You can take from it what you like. For me, at the time I
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Gabrielle Aplin & Gavin James – Anyway
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[Intro: Gabrielle Aplin] / Anyway, anyway, I'm feeling, woah-oh / Anyway, anyway, ba, da, da / [Verse 1: Gabrielle Aplin] / I can't decipher my feelings / I should've bottled them
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