I've Seen It

Over a gentle acoustic riff, Olivia Dean recounts the ways she's witnessed love in parks and on the tube, and in small, ordinary moments. She hears love in songs, spots it in films and books, and recognizes it most clearly in the everyday durability of her parents' relationship.

"I've Seen It" widens the lens beyond romance. Dean sings about friendship and community, name-checking friends - "Eleanor, Rosie and Louise" - and describing scenes of dancing around a table where love is shared, circular, and sustaining.

One of the song's central ideas is that love is maddeningly hard to define, even when it appears to be everywhere at once. The harder Dean tries to understand it, the less certain she becomes.