Sandé said that the first track on the album, "
Heaven" was a huge "epic pop song" which had sweeping strings. "
My Kind of Love" is the second track on the album, which shows Sandé's
soulful and powerful vocals and is the first of many power ballad inspired moments and it is said that it one of the moments when Sandé's strength shines through. "My Kind of Love" was also the last track which Sandé had written for the album, and she wrote the song in her kitchen. The song is about her
fiancé, Adam's unconditional love for her, and she said that he supported her whatever she wanted to do, be a musician or a doctor. "Where I Sleep" is the third track from the album, and Sandé said she wanted to keep the track "open" and let people connect to the song in their own way, as she pointed out that the song does not necessarily have to be romantic. The singer said she didn't intend to make any of her tracks romantic, though you can apply the tracks to romance and love. She said the song means; "this is it, when I am with you I could be anywhere and I feel at home". "Mountains" is a gentle, acoustic, and heartfelt track. It is also one of the first tracks she and Naughty Boy (the producer of the song) wrote three years before the album was released. The song is about Sandé's parents and their journey in life. Her father taught her that every generation should try to improve on where the last one came from. In 1980, her father and her mother got together in
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear where Sandé was born. She wanted the track to have a "grand feeling" while describing a very ordinary situation. "
Clown" has been compared to the music of
Adele and her track "
Rolling in the Deep". "
Daddy" is the second single released from the album. It was the first song that she and
Naughty Boy had worked together on and she pointed out that the song has nothing to do with her father. It has the sound of an early 1990s dance hit, and the song has been compared to the music by
Seal and
Adamski. The track is about her struggle while trying to get into the
music industry and how people can get fanatical about money, drugs, fame or religion. "Daddy" also represents how that one thing you can keep returning to, like how
drug addiction in the music industry and how easy it is to turn to. However, at the same time as she wrote the song she was thinking about
The Jeremy Kyle Show, and the fact that people laugh at the people on that show, and that they are desperate enough to go on the show and talk about their problems. She also said that the song was written very quickly in two or three hours. "Maybe" is the album's seventh song, which was also written three years before the album was released and before she met all the people who worked on the album with her and herself and Paul Herman, who has previously worked with
Dido and
Jessie J wrote the track. The song is about confusion, and the fact that you don't know for sure when you break up with someone in a relationship if this person was not the love of your life and there is a question whether you have made the right decision. "Suitcase" is the eighth song on the album. She was singing the line "he's got a blue face" and Sandé thought it sounded like the word "suitcase". Then at that moment, a whole story came out, and said at that moment she was trying to express how she was feeling, subconsciously almost. About a month ago (when the song was written) she and her fiancé had a falling out and it was a very hard time for her. She just wrote how she felt about that. The ninth track on the album, "Breaking the Law" was written for her sister, to whom she is very close. She is one of the only individuals she would do anything for, Sandé said. And at the same time, she had just graduated in law and had always played her songs to her sister first. Track number ten, "
Next to Me", is the third single released from the album. Sandé wanted the old
soulful feel to the track. The song is about the love and loyalty about "good men", meaning that the song could be about your partner or about your god. "River", the eleventh song on the album, was written when she was sitting down alone at the piano and the lines just came, although she does not know where they came from. She said; "It's about the strong quiet type. I find that the louder people are, the less they have to say." "Lifetime" the third last track on the album is about the fact that Sandé can never find a link between science and music. "When I studied medicine, my brain was in a whole other gear. This is about how nothing really lasts forever, but in my life, the music and ideas I have will last." "Hope" is the thirteenth track on the album and was written with
Alicia Keys. Sandé said she was very nervous to be meeting and writing with her, but she went on to say that Keys was a very warm hearted person who knew how to make people feel at ease. The pair sat and played the piano, which for Sandé is a really "rare thing" to do with another singer. They have kept in touch and Sandé wrote for Keys'
Girl on Fire. "
Read All About It, Pt. III" is the last track on the album. It came after the original version with
Professor Green. She said that after she and Professor Green had done so many shows together, she heard and saw how personal the song was for him. It started to make her think, "what does the song mean to me, and what's my interpretation of it?" which is why she wrote it. ==Release and reissue==