Better In Time



"Better in Time" is a pop and R&B song performed by British singer Leona Lewis. It was written by J. R. Rotem and Andrea Martin, and was produced by Rotem. It is featured on Lewis's debut album Spirit (2007). "Better in Time" was released on 10 March 2008 as Lewis's third single in the United Kingdom, as a double A-side with "Footprints in the Sand", and "You Bring Me Down" as B-side. It was Lewis's second international single following her hit "Bleeding Love" (2007). Lyrically, "Better in Time" tells the story of a girl who cannot forget her ex-partner, and who knows that "it will all get better in time".

Lewis promoted the song on several live television programmes, such asGood Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, and on the 2008 American Music Awards, and it was included on the set list of her debut concert tour The Labyrinth (2010). The music video was filmed by Sophie Muller at Hampton Court House School, London in February 2008. On it, Lewis is shown performing in front of several photographic set-ups, and shows what goes on behind the scenes of them. Receiving generally positive reviews by music critics, it was nominated at the Brit Awards in the category "Best British Single". "Better in Time" reached number two in the national music charts of the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as the top ten in several countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand. The single was certified gold in Australia, Denmark and Germany, and silver in the UK.

Lyrics
It's been the longest winter without you I didn't know where to turn to Seems somehow I can't forget you After all that we've been through

Going coming thought I heard a knock Who's there no one Thinking that I deserve it Now I realise that I really didn't know If you didn't notice you mean everything Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'm gon' be ok

[Chorus:] Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too It'll all get better in time And even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to It'll all get better in time

I couldn't turn on the TV Without something there to remind me Was it all that easy To just put aside your feelings

If I'm dreaming don't wanna laugh Hurt my feelings but that's the path I believe in And I know that time will heal it If you didn't notice boy you meant everything Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'm gon' be ok

[Chorus:] Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too It'll all get better in time And even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to It'll all get better in time

Since there's no more you and me It's time I let you go So I can be free And live my life how it should be No matter how hard it is I'll be fine without you Yes I will

[Chorus: X2] Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too It'll all get better in time Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to It'll all get better in time

Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too It'll all get better in time Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to It'll all get better in time

Composition and release
 "Better in Time" is a pop and R&B song set in common time composed in a moderate tempo of eighty beats per minute, [2] [3] in the key of G major with a vocal range from the tone of C4 to the note of B5. [2] [3] The song has a sequence of G–Bm–Em–G/D–C as its chord progression. [2] [3] Lyrically the song talks about someone who cannot forget her ex-partner, and at the end the protagonist knows that "it will all get better in time". [4] Andrea Martin and J. R. Rotem wrote the song, and Rotem composed and produced it. [4] On 29 January 2008, Lewis announced on her website that "Better in Time", along with " Footprints in the Sand ", would be released as a double A-side single on 10 March 2010, as her third single in the United Kingdom, [5] with 2008 Sport Relief, a biennial charity organised by Comic Relief and BBC Sport , selecting "Footprints in the Sand" as their official single. [6] [7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-out_today_7-0" style="line-height:1em;">[8] It was also her second international single. A new remix of the song was created for the single release. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-out_today_7-1" style="line-height:1em;">[8] The double A-side was released with another song, "You Bring Me Down", as a B-side. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ama.uk_6-1" style="line-height:1em;">[7] It is also one of 38 songs included on the benefit album, Songs for Japan (compiled in response to the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku ), released on March 25, 2011.

Chart performance
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">The double A-side "Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand" debuted at number seventy-four on the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> UK Singles Chart<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">on 1 March 2008; rising thirty-six places, it debuted in the top forty the following week, at number thirty-eight. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-chst_16-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[17] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">On its fourth week, the song reached its peak position at number two, selling 40,476 copies and being beaten to the number one spot by <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Duffy<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">'s " Mercy<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">". <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[18] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">With this it became the third single by Lewis to reach the top five in the country. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[19] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">"Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand" was certified as silver by the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> British Phonographic Industry<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">(BPI). <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BPI_19-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[20] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Y-E_20-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[21] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">In the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Australian charts<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">, "Better in Time" debuted at number thirty-two on 27 April 2008, reaching the top ten two weeks later, her second single to achieve this feat. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aust_21-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[22] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">On 25 May 2008 the single reached its peak position, at number six, and remained within the top fifty for eighteen weeks. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aust_21-1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[22] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">The song was later certified gold by the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Australian Recording Industry Association<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">(ARIA). <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ariaaccre_22-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[23] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">It debuted at number thirty-four on New Zealand's <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> RIANZ<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">Chart on 17 March 2008, eventually reaching number nine after five weeks, and by its seventh week had climbed to number six, thereby becoming her second consecutive top ten hit in the country. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newze_23-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[24] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">"Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand" debuted in the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> German charts<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">on 16 June 2008 at number five. Although it fell out the top ten the following week, it managed to reach the top five in the issue ending 27 July 2010, and rose to its peak position, at number two, in subsequent days. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gerpre_24-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[25] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">"Better in Time" entered the German chart on 22 February 2009 at number seventy-nine, where it stayed for three weeks. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gerbas_25-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[26] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">It achieved a gold certification by the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Bundesverband Musikindustrie<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">(BVMI). <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-certger_26-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[27] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">In <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Denmark<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">"Better in Time" entered the charts at number twenty-nine on 9 May 2008, and managed to rise twenty-three places in the next two weeks. On 6 June 2008 the single reached its peak position, number three. Next week, it fell out two places, but it retook its peak the following issue, and the song continued in this position for three weeks. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-den_27-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[28]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.196969985961914px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">"Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand" debuted and peaked at number eight on the European Hot 100 Singles in the issue ending 29 March 2008, becoming the highest debut of the week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-euro_28-0" style="line-height:1em;">[29] Moreover, "Better in Time" was also a success in the chart, the single eventually reached number seven on the chart in the week ending 2 August 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billusa_29-0" style="line-height:1em;">[30] InSwitzerland, the single entered at number thirteen, becoming the highest release of the week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="line-height:1em;">[31] On 27 July 2008, its ninth week, it reached its peak position at number five, becoming Lewis's second top five in the country. It managed to stay within the top ten for eleven weeks and it was last seen in the chart on 22 March 2009, forty-two weeks after its debut.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-switch_31-0" style="line-height:1em;">[32] In the week ending 26 April 2008, "Better in Time" debuted at number sixty-two on the Billboard Hot 100,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1em;">[33] in the same week that her previous single, "Bleeding Love", topped the chart.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="line-height:1em;">[34] Next week it dropped out of the chart but later re-entered the Hot 100 at number seventy-five, becoming the best comeback of the week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1em;">[35] The song reached its peak position at number eleven on its fourteenth week, where it stayed for another week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billusa_29-1" style="line-height:1em;">[30] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="line-height:1em;">[36] In other charts of the United States, "Better in Time" peaked at number four on the Adult Top 40,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billusa_29-2" style="line-height:1em;">[30] ninety-nine on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billusa_29-3" style="line-height:1em;">[30] three at the Mainstream Top 40,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billusa_29-4" style="line-height:1em;">[30] and at number four on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it spent fifty-two weeks on the chart.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billusa_29-5" style="line-height:1em;">[30] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1em;">[37] The single became the seventeenth best-selling single of 2008 in Austria,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-austend_37-0" style="line-height:1em;">[38] as well as the twenty-second in Germany and Switzerland,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-germ_end_38-0" style="line-height:1em;">[39] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swissend_39-0" style="line-height:1em;">[40] the thirty-sixth in New Zealand,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newzeaend_40-0" style="line-height:1em;">[41] the thirty-seventh in the UK,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Y-E_20-1" style="line-height:1em;">[21] the fifty-fifth of Australia,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AUSendofyear_41-0" style="line-height:1em;">[42] the sixty-fourth in the Netherlands,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dutchend_42-0" style="line-height:1em;">[43] and the seventy-second in Flanders, a region in Belgium.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-flandend_43-0" style="line-height:1em;">[44]

Music video and promotion
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">The <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> music video<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">was filmed at <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Hampton Court House<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">School in <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> London<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">by the British director <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> Sophie Muller<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">in February 2008, <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-video1_44-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[45] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">and was released at the end of the same month. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[46] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">The video is inspired by fashion design, with Lewis performing in front of "unrelated photographic set-ups", and shows what goes on behind the scenes. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbcnews_46-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[47] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">In some parts of the video Lewis is shown with a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;"> horse<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:19.196969985961914px;">. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[48]

<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.196969985961914px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">Lewis first performed the song live on the television programme Dancing on Ice on 9 March 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="line-height:1em;">[49] Lewis also performed both sides of the single onBBC One's Sport Relief on 14 March 2008,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="line-height:1em;">[50] Good Morning America on 4 April 2008,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="line-height:1em;">[51] and on the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel_Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live!] show along with "Bleeding Love".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="line-height:1em;">[52] On 3 September 2008 Lewis performed the song on Live with Regis and Kelly,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52" style="line-height:1em;">[53] and on 1 October 2008 on the season finale of America's Got Talent.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53" style="line-height:1em;">[54] The song was featured in the 90210 episode "Lucky Strike", originally aired on 9 September 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="line-height:1em;">[55] On 24 November 2008, Lewis performed the song at the 2008 American Music Awards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55" style="line-height:1em;">[56] In May 2010, the song was added to the setlist of her The Labyrinth tour, performed as the fourth song of the show.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tour_56-0" style="line-height:1em;">[57] "Better in Time" was included on the tour's live album andBlu-ray The Labyrinth Tour Live from The O2'', released on 29 November 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tour_56-1" style="line-height:1em;">[57] In 2011, Lewis performed a reggaeversion of the song at BBC Radio 1 segment Live Lounge, where she mashed up the single with "Man Down", a song byRihanna.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57" style="line-height:1em;">[58]