SAPPHIRE opens “The Last Thing” with bare, chiming guitar. Her vocal comes in warm and steady, and the two move together until the track blooms.
Released on September 26th, it’s short, focused, and built around a hook that lands exactly when it needs to.
She’s writing about the push and pull between doubt and certainty. The verse sketches small, tactile moments, “The way you hold my head / when I’m crying on your chest,” before the doubts creep in (“Why do I get obsessed / with all this sh*t that people said”).
That clears space for a chorus that sounds like a decision: “I’m torn into pieces, It’s getting between us, but even if I leave it all, I’ll be falling back to you / if it’s the last thing that I do.” It’s a familiar phrase turned into commitment. The promise is big, the language stays simple, and that’s exactly why it works.
Sonically, it’s light on its feet with crisp strums, a soft low-end lift, and harmonies that brighten things up without crowding SAPPHIRE’s lead vocal.
The build from intimate confession to something more euphoric comes from how she stacks those layers: the verse stays tight, the pre-chorus loosens its grip, then the title line arrives like a release valve. It feels euphoric without needing volume to get there.
There’s a Romeo-and-Juliet reference in the framing (“Got me like Juliet / it’s violent ends”), but the song isn’t tragic; it’s stubbornly romantic.
She hears the chorus of outside opinions, names the indecision, and still circles back to the person she’s already chosen.
That blend of dreamy and grounded is what makes it stick: a nostalgic tint with modern snap, and a lyric that treats love as something you do, not just something you feel.
Everything else you need is in the song itself; a tidy pop cut that starts as a twinkle and builds into something bigger.