Stop Myself (Only Human)

## Song by Calum Scott

"**Stop Myself (Only Human)**" is the sixth track from English singer-songwriter Calum Scott's debut studio album, *Only Human* (2018). He explained that it was inspired by the 1986 song "Human" by The Human League, which "defines the album concept. To be human is to not have control sometimes, which is okay. We're not robots, therefore we should embrace our emotions, celebrate them".

He told *The Sydney Morning Herald*, "[It's] about this guy I met on the road who turned out to be straight, I was asking myself 'why do I fancy this guy', 'why do I feel compelled to feel like this about him'. It's about being human, that's how we feel and you can't help that. I want to be able to say that to people, and to do that in my music I have to be able to be honest".

## Personnel

* Bill Zimmerman – assistant mixer
* Calum Scott – vocals, writer
* James Harris III – writer
* Keith "Daquan" Sorrells – assistant recording engineer
* Phil Tan – mixing engineer
* Sean Douglas – background vocals, writer
* Talay Riley – background vocals, writer
* Terry Lewis – writer
* Warren "OAK" Felder – background vocals, writer, producer, recording engineer, programming engineer

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1]

Driven to the fire

Take it back to where we started

Till we crash and burn again

Now I got it to a science

All this sabotage between us

Dancing on a razor's edge

[Pre-Chorus]

Where does it start? Where does it end?

Two nights ago my broken heart was on the mend

Know I should go but it's so hard when you walk in

I'm not myself when we're apart, I can't pretend

[Chorus]

Oh, but I

I'm only human

How am I supposed to stop myself

From loving you, loving you, yeah?

I'm only human

I'm about to do the thing I know

I shouldn't do, shouldn't do, yeah

[Post-Chorus]

We don't know how the story's gonna end

But I know you're gonna break my heart again

I'm only human, how am I supposed to stop myself

From loving you, loving you, yeah

[Verse 2]

Heaven or disaster

In the middle of the madness

Hard to tell which one is which

Always caught up the morning after

When I'm reaching out to hold ya

Nothing on my fingertips

[Pre-Chorus]

Where does it start? Where does it end?

Two nights ago my broken heart was on the mend

Know I should go but it's so hard when you walk in

I'm not myself when we're apart, I can't pretend

[Chorus]

Oh, but I

I'm only human

How am I supposed to stop myself

From loving you, loving you, yeah?

I'm only human

I'm about to do the thing I know

I shouldn't do, shouldn't do, yeah

[Post-Chorus]

We don't know how the story's gonna end

But I know you're gonna break my heart again

I'm only human, how am I supposed to stop myself

From loving you, loving you, yeah?

[Bridge]

Look like an angel

Palms on your halo

Look like an angel

And I'm drowning in your light

[Chorus]

Oh, but I

I'm only human

How am I supposed to stop myself

From loving you?

I'm only human

I'm about to do the thing I know

I shouldn't do, shouldn't do, yeah

[Post-Chorus]

We don't know how the story's gonna end

But I know you're gonna break my heart again

I'm only human, how am I supposed to stop myself

From loving you, loving you, yeah?

## References

1. ↑ "Calum Scott (@calumscott)". *Twitter*. 9 March 2018.
2. ↑ Cooper, Nathanael (18 March 2018). "'I Hated Myself': Calum Scott and the Challenging Path to Fame". *The Sydney Morning Herald*.