Jet Lag

This song is about a love that's so physically intense and overwhelming, it leaves you feeling like you're jet-lagged or experiencing the effects of a hangover. In an interview with YM in 2004, British soul singer Joss Stone commented: "It's how you feel when you're in love. Sick, but in a good way."

"Jet Lag" was one of the first songs Stone wrote. Having won the British television talent show Junior Star for a Night, the teenager was invited to a songwriting session with Conner Reeves and Jonathan Shorten. She explained to Songwriting Magazine in 2020: "I was about 14 when I wrote that and really I was still in the learning process of writing, so the leaders in those writing sessions were Conner Reeves and Jon Shorten, and I still write with them today." Stone was subsequently signed to S-Curve Records and released the covers album The Soul Sessions in 2003. As a result, "Jet Lag" wasn't heard in public until 2004, when Stone released her first collection of originals, Mind Body & Soul.

According to Stone, "Jet Lag" is one of the songs she's most proud of from Mind Body & Soul. She noted to Official Charts in 2015: "I like some of the songs on that album. Songs like 'Jet Lag' I still love today, but some of the songs I really don't like. It was more of me than The Soul Sessions was so I was pleased that they were putting something out that I had a hand in. That was a real confidence boost for me. I felt like I was an artist rather than just a singer."