You Found Me

The starting point for this song was back in 2006 when frontman Isaac Slade found himself pondering why bad things happen to good people after witnessing various crises among people close to the singer. The lyrics for this tune came from these deliberations. Slade said on The Fray's website that this was a tough song for him to write. He explained: "Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you're let down, sometimes you're the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I'm still right in the thick of it. There's some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest."

This song was debuted during a commercial break in the middle of the November 20, 2008 episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, the same TV show that first supported the band in 2006 with "How To Save A Life." The one-minute promo for the song was interspersed with scenes from the upcoming season of Lost. ABC continued to use this as the promo song for the 2009 series of the Emmy-winning show. In return the Fray agreed to appear on various ABC programs such as Good Morning America. Slade told Billboard magazine: "I've always had that camera rolling in my head when I write the songs. When Joe (King) and I do a lot of the co-writing, it's always talking in terms of character development and foreshadowing and conflicts and resolution. We talk in really theatrical terms, so I think that has helped us."

The Fray first performed this number in 2007 when it was titled "Amistad."