Songwriter/s: Sade Adu – Andrew Hale – Stuart Matthewman – Paul Spencer Denman.Ĭhart Rankings: In the UK, the song peaked at number 17 on the Official Charts Company. This strange journey represents her life but “made into a beautiful, mysterious dream.

At the end of the video, she walks into the city and is seen in the median of the road offering the rose like a flower seller. She is also walks through different scenes, she gathers items such as a rose and a burned wood stick, and puts them in a small sack. Sade Adu is depicted as a mystical figure in the video, and she is mostly seen walking through a forest and into the city. It had been 8 years since the group Sade released an album, and the flower that Sade Adu offers to people passing by at the end of the video symbolizes the band’s latest album, Lovers Rock, that she is offering to the world. After seeing that, Muller then got the idea for the video and thought “it was so sad to be constantly rejected by these cars ” and thought “Well, it’s not such a bad job to be looking at beautiful flowers all day.” And this how the concept of someone who has been away, and was just standing offering a flower to someone came about. The idea for the video came when Sade Adu and director Muller were driving to the studio, they saw people standing in the median of the road selling flowers. This love song is about a person’s undying love for someone and the video for it is a metaphor for Sade Adu’s life.

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