what is the song i miss you by clean bandit about
I Miss You (Clean Bandit song) On 16 October 2017, Clean Bandit first announced the song and its release date on social media, along with the single cover and a pre-order set up on streaming services.[1][2] Shortly afterwards, Michaels revealed on Twitter that she "wrote ['I Miss You'] at the height of an emotional roller coaster. When I was stuck at the top, this flew out of me." On 18 October 2017, the group posted the first snippet of the song on social media, in which Michaels' layered voice can be heard "singing the melody over a piano piece".[3] Michaels later confirmed via a tweet that she wrote the song while Jack Patterson was playing the piano.[4] Chatto spoke to Billboard on the meaning behind the track, saying: "It's a simple song, about the unbelievable pain of breaking up with someone you love."[5] She also regarded "Sorry", a highly successful song co-written by Michaels, as one of her favorites of all time, calling working with Michaels "a real honour".[6]
I'm Lost Without You When sequenced as a part of the album, the song segues directly from the previous track, "Here's Your Letter", which relates to isolation, dislocation, loneliness and miscommunication.[3] The song opens with the combination of an industrial loop with piano, which reminded Barker of the music of Pink Floyd or Failure.[1] The narrative involves a lover pleading to his female companion to stay, and the song centrals around this refrain: "Are you afraid of being alone?/ 'Cause I am/ I'm lost without you."[4] "Slow, deliberate, lumbering beats" mix with the guitars, which are tampered with a "space-age" feel.[5] The song, which recalls the music of the 1980s, "undulates and builds round a mid-paced and somewhat wistful feel."[3] Journalist Joe Shooman connects the song thematically to "I Miss You", in that both are downbeat in tone and relate to lost love.[3] The piano returns for a "quiet middle-eight" before the narrative ends,[3] and the song carries on for several more minutes without an extended drum solo that serves as the outro.[4] The dueling drums—one mixed in the right channel and the other in the left—was something the band had always discussed, but had never implemented into a song.[5][1] The first drum track was played to a click track, whereas the other one consisted of Barker "playing until I couldn't stop playing."[1] The result is the longest song the band ever recorded, clocking in at 6:20.[3]