Life for Rent

Song backgrounds

White Flag – about a past relationship. Dido "regretted writing it" to begin with because of the further problems it caused with that person but now enjoys performing the song.

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Life for Rent – written to reflect how she saw her life at the time.

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Mary's in India – a joke for childhood best friend Mary who now lives in India, originally not intended to be on the album.

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See You When You're 40 – about a past boyfriend who "wanted to be different more than anything in the world."

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Don't Leave Home – written about the difficulties of drug addiction and made as a demo during the creation of her previous album.

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