Sing to You

Singer-songwriters have an edge when it comes to romance: they can sing a song to their loved one. That what John Splithoff does here; his significant other wants to keep their relationship low-key, but he has other ideas: Just try to understand me Won't you come a little closer And let me whisper to you And I'll say You don't have to worry 'bout a single thing Just let me sing to you Who can resist this charm?

John Splithoff wrote "Sing To You" soon after moving to New York City from Chicago. He told the story on the Songfacts Podcast: "I was crashing on my buddy's couch before I found my own apartment, and I would just walk around humming that bassline non-stop, and it just took me forever to write the lyrics to it. He was like, 'All right man, that's catchy but will you please do me a favor and write some lyrics and stop humming that song, because you're living in my apartment and I can't stop hearing that in my head too.' Which I think is a good sign. That was a song where things just worked out with the writing and the production. It's a good vibe of a song. The response and love that that song got was really inspiring and motivated me to keep doing this to the best of my ability. I don't want to say it is like lightning in a bottle, but that song definitely gave me a bigger audience than I had before, and it's very different from this last album, but there are definitely bits of this record that remind me of what I had when I was working on that song."

This song was a breakthrough for Splithoff, who started recording just a few years earlier. It took off on YouTube and on various streaming services, especially Spotify, where it quickly amassed over 40 million streams. Splithoff, though, didn't release a full-length album until 2021, when he issued All In.