First premiered at her set at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival, “Free Yourself” is a single from Jessie Ware.
Released on July 19, 2022 as Radio 1’s Hottest Record, it is Ware’s first single since the release of the Platinum Pleasure Edition of her What’s Your Pleasure? album in 2021.
The song was ge...
[Chorus]
Free yourself
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please yourself?
If it feels so good, then don't you, baby, don't you stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Baby, don't you—
[Verse 1]
Don't stand there waiting all of your life
For the night to come and find you
The clock is ticking, baby, now is the time
For someone to come and hold you
[Pre-Chorus]
You are a name, not a number
Extraordinary colours
Don't you hide undercover, baby
[Chorus]
Free yourself
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Please), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good, then don't you, baby, don't you stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Baby, don't you—
[Verse 2]
No complications, distractions
Reactions, no retractions
Only obsessions, motivations
Investigation, there's new information
[Pre-Chorus]
You are a name, not a number
Extraordinary colours
Don't you hide undercovеr, baby
[Chorus]
Free yourself
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Plеase), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good then don't you stop
Free (Free), yourself (Yourself)
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Please), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good, then don't you, baby, don't you stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Baby, don't you—
[Bridge]
If you feel it, if you feel it, take it (Over)
If you feel it, if you feel it, take it (Over)
If you feel it, if you feel it, take it (Over)
If you feel it, if you feel it, take it (Don't tease me)
If you feel it (Don't), if you feel it, take it (Don't tease me)
If you feel it (Don't), if you feel it, take it (Don't tease me)
If you feel it (Don't), if you feel it, take it (Don't tease me)
If you feel it (Don't), if you feel it, take it
[Chorus]
You've got to free yourself
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Please), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good then don't you stop
Free (Free), yourself (Yourself)
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Please), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good, then don't you, baby, don't you stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Baby, don't you—
Free Yourself was written by Clarence Coffee Jr. & Jessie Ware & Stuart Price.
Free Yourself was produced by Stuart Price.
Jessie Ware released Free Yourself on Tue Jul 19 2022.
I wrote it on the same day as I wrote another tune that you are yet to hear, on my first studio date with the incomparable Stuart Price and my old mate Clarence Coffee Jr. – It was easy, fun and I think we were all surprised when I went in for the belter chorus! I hope you enjoy it, let’s start as w...
[Stuart Price] wanted to work with me and I was like “I don’t know if it’s going to work (‘cause like, you know these super producers), I don’t know, I’m in my little bubble in the attic with James Ford (who is also a super producer and is wonderful, who did the last record).” […] and then I was lik...
Stuart had worked with Madonna, and so she was in my mind, too. It’s hard to forget when you’re holding the same mic that Madonna recorded Confessions on a Dance Floor on to not feel like maybe you are hopefully going to be a bit blessed by something.
—via Rolling Stone UK
I wanted to have a song out in the summer last year (2022). I was playing Glastonbury so we started with that one but it was actually one of the last ones we wrote for the record. Celebrating people, commanding people to let go and I love it.
— via Twitter
We nearly didn’t write this song. It was the first day I’d worked with Stuart [Price], and he’d played this house song but I felt it was a bit too close to What’s Your Pleasure?. Respect to Stuart, because he never gives up and said, ‘Can we just listen to that instrumental again?’ We put the vocal...