page_title: Not Even the King
section_title: Music and lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Not Even the King / Music and lyrics
caption_attribution_description: English: Emeli Sande King Tuts Glasgow
context_page_description: "Not Even the King" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys for her fifth studio album, Girl on Fire. Co-written by Scottish recording artist and songwriter Emeli Sandé, "Not Even the King" is a piano ballad about love which is bigger than the world, and which couldn't be afforded by a king. The song serves as a promotional single from Girl on Fire. She has performed the song on a number of occasions, and released an artistic lyric video for it on September 8, 2012. It has garnered acclaim by music critics, who praised Keys' vocals and the song's message.
context_section_description: "Not Even the King" is a piano ballad with a length of three minutes and seven seconds (3:07). Keys co-wrote the song with Scottish recording artist and writer Emeli Sandé. The pair had previously collaborated on Sandé's album, Our Version of Events on a song entitled "Hope". Sandé explained: "Writing with Alicia Keys was really great. I was nervous, but she’s a very warm person. She knew how to make people feel at ease." They also collaborated on two other songs from Girl on Fire, "Brand New Me" and "101". Of working with Sandé, Keys called it "instant magic" stating: "I have to say, myself and Emeli Sande – when we met and we really began to write together, it was instant magic and that doesn't happen all the time."
  Lyrically, "Not Even the King" is about "good wealth versus less-good wealth" according to MTV. Over the piano-driven melody, Keys sings about a love of hers which is bigger than the entire world: "Yeah believe that, the trust that we feel the kings never felt that / Yeah, this is the song we sing, we don’t need anything / They can’t afford this, this is priceless / They can’t afford what we got, not even the king." In the song, she describes "your arms around me" as "worth more than a kingdom".
caption: Emeli Sandé co-wrote "Not Even the King" as well as two other tracks from the album.
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