About this song
- "courage" was written by Ruel (with Sarah Aarons and M-Phazes) in Paris, 2019. In an interview with Thomas Bleach, when asked about the creative process of ‘courage’ he stated: “I was basically writing a song about how if I could do my life over then I wouldn’t do the same”, because he doesn’t feel that he has enough courage to continue the path he is on. The song also talks about how he wishes he could go back and do his life differently. ‘courage’ has heavy gospel influence and is Ruel’s most soul-sounding song. "The concept wasn’t necessarily true at all. I didn’t really feel like I related to it. But it just felt like something people should hear anyway. […] I was home alone a lot in LA, because most of my writing sessions were getting cancelled. I was listening to a lot of really sad music, thinking, “What am I even doing? Why do I have a music career?” I felt a bit useless. The chorus is about: “If I could try, I’d run away.” It’s pretty sad! Luckily, I don’t actually feel like that. When I’m songwriting, I like to expand the biggest emotion. And that’s the most intense emotion, when I’m sad. So I just nail in on that." – Ruel via NME . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
