欧博Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things"
Released in 2024 on Boone’s Fireworks & Rollerblades album, “Beautiful Things” is an emotional love song. The lyrics emphasize his gratitude for finding someone special — “a girl my parents love,” as he sings in the first verse — but also the desperation and fear he feels about potentially losing something so precious.
As he sings in the powerful and emotion-packed chorus: “Please stay / I want you, I need you, oh God / Don't take / These beautiful things that I've got.”
“The theme of the song is just begging someone to stay. It’s needing something so badly that you’re just terrified to lose it,” Boone shared with Genius about the meaning of “Beautiful Things.”
"If someone just doesn't love you the person you are, there's not much you can do about that. And so a lot is just out of my control and I have to be okay with that," he continued. "Being rejected by this person would really, actually, really suck. That would be the worst feeling and that's, in the song, what I'm terrified of — being one of the rejects, man."
Boone also explained to Genius that the drastic switch-up in the song's tempo and style from the first verse to the chorus is meant to reflect his mindset. "The verse is explaining, 'You have such a good thing and you've been given this incredible thing in life, this relationship that's beautiful and you love,'" he said. "But then right when you switch to the chorus, it's like, 'Hot damn, I could lose this all.'"