Sorry

## Music Video

"**Sorry**" is a song performed by Halsey which is featured as the sixth track on the standard and as the seventh track on the deluxe edition of her sophomore studio album *Hopeless Fountain Kingdom*. It was released on June 2, 2017 through Astralwerks Records.

## Background

The song was recorded in one take. Halsey said that she had gotten a text from an ex-lover and she realized she kinda "faded away" from the relationship. She then went to the studio and recorded "Sorry." It was one session and she didn't "play around" with the song or record it multiple times. It was a "one mic, one take".

In a Twitter Q&A Halsey talked about the meaning of the song and the inspiration for it:

"*I was in the studio and I was thinking about all of the people that I probably could've had really cool relationships with, that I didn’t give the time of day to because I was too insecure to interpret their feelings as real. It was easy for me to write them off and think, 'Oh they must say that to everybody,' and, 'Oh they don’t really love me.' And to create problems in them because of my own insecurities to think they didn’t like me that much.*"
—Halsey

On February 1, 2018, she announced that she has got a surprise for her fans. The next day a music video for the song was released.

## Cross-references

* The lyric "Don't realize how mean I can be" references the lyric "saying that I probably shouldn't be so mean" from "Castle".
* The line "I can change my mind each day" is referenced in "Good Mourning": "Don't trust the moon, she's always changing."
* The lyric "I’ve missed your calls for months it seems/Don’t realize how mean I can be" is similar to the lyric "Said he tried to phone me, but I never have time/He said that I never listen, but I don’t even try" from "Alone" and "She doesn't call me on the phone anymore/She's never listening, she says it's innocent" from "Strangers".

## Music video

The music video was released on February 2, 2018. It was directed by Halsey and Sing J Lee and was shot in one take.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I've missed your calls for months it seems

Don't realize how mean I can be

'Cause I can sometimes treat the people

That I love like jewelry

'Cause I can change my mind each day

I didn't mean to try you on

But I still know your birthday

And your mother's favorite song

[Chorus]

So I'm sorry to my unknown lover

Sorry that I can't believe

That anybody ever really

Starts to fall in love with me

Sorry to my unknown lover

Sorry I could be so blind

Didn't mean to leave you

And all of the things that we had behind

Ooh

Ooh

Ooh

[Verse 2]

I run away when things are good

And never really understood

The way you laid your eyes on me

In ways that no one ever could

And so it seems I broke your heart

My ignorance has struck again

I failed to see it from the start

And tore you open 'til the end

[Chorus]

So I'm sorry to my unknown lover

Sorry that I can't believe

That anybody ever really

Starts to fall in love with me

Sorry to my unknown lover

Sorry I could be so blind

Didn't mean to leave you

And all of the things that we had behind

[Post-Chorus]

And someone will love you

Someone will love you

Someone will love you

But someone isn't me

Someone will love you

Someone will love you

Someone will love you

But someone isn't me

[Chorus]

Sorry to my unknown lover

Sorry that I can't believe

That anybody ever really

Starts to fall in love with me

Sorry to my unknown lover

Sorry I could be so blind

Didn't mean to leave you

And all of the things that we had behind

[Post-Chorus]

And someone will love you

Someone will love you

Someone will love you

But someone isn't me

And someone will love you

Someone will love you

Someone will love you

But someone isn't me

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Twitter* - @halsey "a song recorded in 1 take, a video recorded in 1 take, one of my fav things i’ve ever made. something to hold u over, here is SORRY."
2. ↑ *PopCrush* - "Halsey Delivers High Drama in One Take With ‘Sorry’ (VIDEO)
3. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey ".@yikesitsjay #hopelessfountainkingdom"
4. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey - "Surprise coming tomorrow
5. ↑ *Twitter* - @iugcf - "hello? 👀"

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