Seventeen Going Under - Edit

Sam Fender was born and raised in the northeastern English town of North Shields. His mother left when he was 8 years old, but after he was kicked out of his father's house by his stepmother, he moved back in with his mum. This song finds Fender looking back at his teenage years living with his mother when they were both struggling financially. She said the debt, the debt, the debt So I thought about shifting gear And how she wept and wept and wept Luck came and died round here Fender considered becoming a drug dealer as a way out of his household's poverty.

Over a combination of guitars, piano and saxophone, Fender describes the struggles he had when he was 17. He said: "17 is when all the challenges begin: you're not a baby, but you're definitely not an adult (turns out that bit takes a lot longer than you think)."

This is the title track of Sam Fender's second album, which is centered on the North Shields singer-songwriter growing up and coming of age. "I've had a lot of time to look back and there's a lot of things I've processed, stuff that happened when I was in my late teens and early 20s," he told Apple Music. "I was carrying a lot of pain around, and with writing this [album], I've been able to put some of those things to bed - which has been very, very humbling and good for the soul. I feel like it is a celebratory record, and it's full of hope and full of yearning. It's a triumph over adversity."