It Never Went Away is a song written by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for the documentary American Symphony.
The film song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.
While the film American Symphony documents the marriage between Batiste and Suleika Jaouad as Jaoaud battles leukemia, the song is intended to celebrate a serene, enduring love beyond the limitations of the physical world.
[1] The piano ballad is inspired by lullabies that Batiste wrote and played for his wife to help her survive.
It Never Went Away not only brings the music down from a whole orchestra to a piano, but is also intended to summarize the documented events.