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“King” is the fourth single from Years & Years debut studio album, Communion, originally appearing on their extended play Y & Y. It reached the #1 spot on the UK Singles Chart on March 8th, 2015.

In a comment on Youtube, the trio explained the meaning of the song as being about “feeling controlled by somebody and wanting them to let you go.”

In an interview with Shazam, frontman Olly Alexander said that the track “feels like a mixture of different parts” of his life:

Lyrically, it was written at two different stages in my life. First of all, when I was in a relationship and I was really frustrated [because] I went out with the same types of person all the time and I really wanted that to stop. And then I rewrite it again later, because I was in a relationship that I wanted to end.

Although the narrator in this song has sacrificed a lot to be with this person just to feel like a king, he wants this relationship to come to an end due to its destructive nature. He wants to feel like his lover does not control him anymore, and so he insists on breaking himself down, fighting with his lover, and then moving on.

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