
The video begins with the singer with wounds on her face after a car crash from the ending of "Now or Never", she starts walking on a street on fire with dead bodies and abandoned vehicles everywhere. It was uploaded on February 2, 2018, on Halsey's Vevo channel. Music video Īn accompanying music video for "Sorry" was directed by Sing J Lee and Halsey, who had also helmed the videos for the previous singles, " Now or Never" and " Bad at Love".

Toward the ending, she sings "Someone will love you/ But someone isn't me". During the chorus, she sings "So I'm sorry to my unknown lover/ Sorry that I can't believe/ That anybody ever really/ Starts to fall in love with me".

The song begins with a "somber" piano opening, followed by the lines "I've missed your calls for months it seems/ Don't realize how mean I can be/ Cause I can sometimes treat the people/ That I love like jewelry" sung by Halsey. Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone thought that its lyrical content "worries whether she'll ever like herself enough to let anyone get close to her". The song's instrumentation comes from piano, guitar and mellotron. Halsey's vocal range span from F 3 to Bb 4. Written in the key of A♭ major, "Sorry" has a tempo of 74 beats per minute. The song is a simplistic piano arranged ballad which lasts for a duration of 3:40 (three minutes and forty seconds). "Sorry" was written by Halsey and Greg Kurstin, the latter also producing the song. Problems playing this file? See media help. A 30-second sample of "Sorry", a piano ballad about apologizing for rejecting a potential lover.
