"Cloud Nine" was inspired by a break-up with Shaun Morgan which is present in the lines that she quoted on her VH1 interview: "If you want to live, let live/ If you want to go, let go/ What are we doing here?/ Because I can live without you."These lyrics may be from an early demo as they are not in the final song. It uses strings, studio effects and Lee's "layered moaning." “It's about breaking up. There are a lot of relationship struggles on the record.

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