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The Canadian star’s self-titled third album arrives May 25 featuring a beautiful duet with Khalid called Youth.

It was Shawn’s reaction to the dreadful events in the UK that created the LP’s pivotal moment.

Shawn revealed: “It’s the most important song on the album.

“I was touring around Europe when the events of Manchester and London happened, it was very overwhelming.

“I wanted to write something but it had to be about the feeling for us as a generation when one of these things happens. So I wrote a song about our youth, a feeling that can’t be taken away from us.”

The moving song’s lyrics go:

‘Pain but I won’t let it turn into hate ‘I won’t let it change me

‘You can’t take my Youth away.’