I Was Here

This bittersweet ballad finds OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder teaming up with prolific hitmaker Diane Warren. While this is Warren's first tune that she's penned for the Texan songstress, Tedder previously contributed "Halo" to Beyoncé's I Am… Sasha Fierce album.

The song finds Beyoncé singing about making her mark before her time is up. "When I leave this world I'll leave no regrets/ Leave something to remember so they won't forget/ I was here, I lived, I loved/ I was here, I've did, I've done everything that I wanted," she sings.

Tedder told Billboard magazine how he was approached during the Billboard Music Awards to help flesh out the song barely a month before 4 came out. "There was one song came in at the last minute that was a Diane Warren-written song," said Tedder. "It was just a vocal, just Diane singing basically, and didn't have any real music behind it. We did the entire thing on two airplanes, from Vegas to Boston and then returning from Boston to Vegas two days later. It was absolutely bizarre, but the song sounds great."