[Verse 1]
I had hoped you'd find your way to this piece of music
And that would mean, oh my friend, we have made it to the end
I hope inside this you've found something beautiful
She had hoped you'd make it to the seventeenth song
And if to dance or then to cry or to just sing along
We hope inside this you've found something beautiful
My complete gratitude for taking time out of your day
To hear the melodies and words we have to play and to say
[Interlude]
And I wanted to finish this album like this
With a musical hug and an orchestral kiss
[Verse 2]
H-A-P-P-I-E-R T-I-M-E-S (Happier times)
I wish you the best
Only joy in this life that we tread
And now I'd like to leave you with an unapologetically
Dramatic and powerful, this last metaphorical summary
For it's life's guarantee that we're all going to die
Come rain or come storms, we've got one little life
The sun has promised to shine
All four beautiful seasons, even if we can't see it
Hope must always exist, is just above the clouds
To conclude there, and so it goes
And as it says on the tin, in the winds, This May Contain Hope
If you didn't find it, then might I advise it
I'm asking polite that if hope didn't find you, my friend
We advise you to listen again
[Interlude]
Thank you for listening
Until next time, lots of love, RAYE
[Spoken]
Roll the credits
All right, thank you to Grandma, Grandad Michael, my sisters Amma and Absolutely
My co-producers Mike Sabath, Tom Richards, Chris Hill, Pete Clements, Jordan Riley, Toneworld, Punctual, Hans Zimmer and his team at Bleeding Fingers, Hendrik Boeink, Russell Emanuel
And a special thank you to Al Green and Matthew Johnson, and Mr. Reverend Charlie Hodges
Thank you to Alex Robinson, my engineer, Tony Maserati, Jon Castelli, and Andrew Dudman on the mixing
Thank you to additional vocals, Katy Hill, Patrice Copeland, and Layla Ley
Thank you to the band, Matt Brooks, Liv Thompson, Daniella Bernard, Pauly Murray, Joe Webb, Graeme Blevins, Mike Cordone, Ivan Malespin, Matthias Simmons, Dan Ellis, Augie Haas, Oscar Stilar
The string players, Kirsty Mangan, Dan Oates, Matthew Ward, Paloma Deike, Sam Kennedy, Emma Owens, Rachael Lander, and Richard Phillips
The big band, Ed Richardson, George Hogg, Mike Davis, Tom Dennis, Tom Walsh, Ryan Quigley, Callum Au, Nichol Thomson, Andy Wood, Trevor Miers, Howard McGill, Mike Lesirge, Paul Booth, Jon Shenoy, and Jesse McGinty
The London Symphony Orchestra, John Mills, Claire Duckworth, Ginette de Kuiper, Lauren Dixon, Maxine Kwok, William Melvin, Stefano Mangoli, Lauren Cannell, Harriet Rayfield, Olatz Ruiz de Gordejuela, David Ballesteros, Sylvain Vasseur, and Grace Li, Thomas Norris, Mia Vaissanen, Helena Bucki, Matthew Gardner, Naoko Keatley, Alix Lagasse, Belinda McFarlane, Iwona Muszynska, Chilla Pulgani, Paul Robson, and Elena Fagg, Eivind Ringstad, Julianne Haddo, Malcolm Johnson, Thomas Beard, Herman Clever, Steve Domen, Julia O'Riordan, Sophia Silva Sousa, Robert Turner, Liz Varlo, Laure Ludonte, Alistair Baden, Daniel Gardner, Amanda Truelove, Joanna Twaddle, Peteris Sokolovskis, Anna Beryl, and Henry Hargraves, Paul Kimber, Patrick Lawrence, Thomas Goodman, Ben Griffiths, Philip Nelson, Evangeline Tang, Elizabeth Burley, Bryn Lewis, Gareth Davis, Imogen Royce, Hannah Grayson, Rosie Jenkins, Chris Richards, Tom Lessels, Janae Albrecht, Daniel Jamieson, Philip Munns, Daniel Curzon, Timothy Jones, Olivia Gandy, Katherine Saunders, Andrew Sutton, James Fountain, Adam Wright, Katie Smith, Toby Street, James Davison, Simon Johnson, Jonathan Hollick, Paul Milner, Dan West, Ben Thompson, Nigel Thomas, Patrick King, David Jackson, Jacob Brown, Mark Bouzie
Additional instrumentation, Distant Cowboy, Yasmine Al-Masidi, Rita Andrade, James Madren, Tom Cawley, Hal Ritson, Aaron Emmanuel, Aaron Janik, Uncle Kofi, Flames Collective, Andy Gilbert, Alec Balabanov, Angel Lunda, Bella Hales, Colby Ashby, Daphne Mikaliethis, Dia Day, Dia Sohi, Ella Mae Torbert, Emily Batt, Emre Nalbantoglu, Emiya Summers, Isabelle Mettle, Joanna Georgiou, Katie Jones, Leo Hui, Lena Oviosa, Nad Etzioni, Naomi Simon, Olivia Rochester Holness, Shane Thompson, Promise Kadree, Rachel Macassa, Rashad Cayenne-Davis, Ruby Langthorn, Scarlet Cecile, Shanay Lynch, Shelby, Sophia Trotman, Tiger-Lily Jonathan, Victoria Ho
Technical team, Antoine Klein, Charlie Howe, Neil Dawes, Chris Parker, Mike Hillier, Jules Bonnet, Mollie Crammond, Harp Sanghera, Joe Brice, Sanjana Walia, Mat Bartram, Paul Norris, Cecilia Griffin, Matisse Erbus, Roland Gerodent, Soledad Poussielgues Melia, Enrique Andrade, Clay Jones, Scott McEwan, Liam Nolan, Noah Urrea, Raymond Breiterbauer, Jenna Felsenthal, Bleeding Fingers, Marsha Bow, Harsha Thangarella, Fineline Music Service, Nashville Music Scoring Orchestra, Alan Armstead, Nick Spezia, Alan Meyerson, Charlie Paxton, Roman Soto
And finally, thank you to my team, who are literally my mum and my dad, Lucrezia, Scarlet Sharp, Alexandra Dairo, Mikey Robbins, Aliyah Otchere, and, uh, Sibling, my team, ah, I love you guys
[Outro]
Thanks for listening to this album
Can't believe it, I can't believe it
It's finally yours, it's finally out there, it's finally yours
All right, just take care of it and listen to it again and again and share it with your friends and just know that I really love making music
And I wanna do this for the rest of my life
And thanks for supporting me, and thank you
I love you, I love you
This is the album
Oh, and thank you to my distribution, Human Re-Sources and J. Irving
Shout out you guys who believed in me when literally no one else would take my first album, so thank you for taking it and making a second one with me, I love you guys
I love you, the end
