Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding & Tinie Tempah
Ellie stated that
I wanted to start the record off with my voice, which is what I do. As a conversation running through that song, you can just about pick up on, between myself, and a dream about death and dreams, and what happens when you die and blah, blah, blah.
Her beginning vocals were sample...
[Intro]
Oh, if you'd never said anything
If you'd never said anything
If you never, if you never
If you never, if you'd never said anything
[Refrain]
If you never, if you never
Oh
If you never, if you never
Oh
If you never, if you never
Oh
If you never, if you never
[Verse 1]
Here it is, in my hands
In my veins and over lands
It spreads like fire seeking air
To pull me in my own funfair
[Pre-Chorus]
Won't you come? Won't you come?
Won't you come? Just don't say a word
Won't you come? Won't you come?
Won't you come? Just don't say a word
[Chorus]
If you never, if you never
(Just don't say a word)
If you never, if you never
(Just don't say a word)
[Verse 2]
I'm more alive I've ever been
So now I give you all my sins
I've chosen you, I've chosen you
But don't say a word
[Bridge]
And if I save us and I fall down
I will leave your words behind now
If you never held me under
If you never hear my thunder
[Refrain]
If you never, if you never
Oh
If you never, if you never
If you never, if you never
Oh
If you never, if you never
[Outro]
Just don't say a word
Don’t Say a Word was written by Ellie Goulding & Jim Eliot.
Don’t Say a Word was produced by Jim Eliot & Ellie Goulding.
Ellie Goulding released Don’t Say a Word on Fri Oct 05 2012.
Ellie has said about the song:
Interviewer: Halcyon tracks like “My Blood,” “Hanging On,” “Don’t Say a Word,” and “Dead in the Water” document your romantic split. Were you incredibly depressed for most of its writing?
Oh, yeah. Definitely. A lot of the stuff that I wrote was based on a lot of sad...