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Dagny

Backbeat

Release date: 1st September 2016

From Ultraviolet - EP
Track 4
3:46
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About This Track

'Backbeat' by Dagny is a pop track from the EP 'Ultraviolet - EP', released in 2016. Its lyrics frame a present tense reckoning with a lost connection, returning again and again to being alone, disbelief, and the decision to let go. The repeated insistence on time, plus the admission of fear, gives the song a restless, self-questioning edge, captured in the line, ‘Time, time’.

"Backbeat" is a single by Dagny, from the album Ultraviolet - EP, released 1st September 2016. The track is 3:46 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Dagny.

About the Artist

Dagny

Dagny

Lyrics

Backbeat

Time, time
Time, time

Right now
You got me feeling like I can't believe I let you go
I've been alone so long
And now I wonder what the hell we were thinking of
Oh I can't believe I kid myself again, again
Oh now I'm letting go
And all my fear, all my fear
I've been fearing this too long

Backbeat, counting time
Pick it up and tell me if you really wanna dance some more
We're borderline wasting time
Pick it up and tell me that you love me like you did before
I understand, understand
I been feeling it so long
I'm flying when I'm in your arms
I'm burning up, burning up
Feeling like I kid myself, kid myself again
Yeah!

Think fast
Don't let the speed of sound leave you feeling paralyzed
Slow down
'Cause your words are saying something different than your eyes
Oh, if only we could make it so we didn't have to try so hard
To stay in time again
Show me how, show me how
And you will leave me wanting more

Backbeat, counting time
Pick it up and tell me if you really wanna dance some more
We're borderline wasting time
Pick it up and tell me that you love me like you did before
I understand, understand
I been feeling it so long
I'm flying when I'm in your arms
I'm burning up, burning up
Feeling like I kid myself, kid myself again
Yeah!

Backbeat, counting time
Pick it up and tell me if you really wanna dance some more
We're borderline wasting time
Pick it up and tell me that you love me like you did before
I understand, understand
I been feeling it so long
I'm flying when I'm in your arms
I'm burning up, burning up
Feeling like I kid myself, kid myself again
Yeah!

Backbeat, counting time
Pick it up and tell me if you really wanna dance some more
We're borderline wasting time
Pick it up and tell me that you love me like you did before
I understand, understand
I been feeling it so long
I'm flying when I'm in your arms
I'm burning up, burning up
Feeling like I kid myself, kid myself again
Yeah!

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Track details

From Ultraviolet - EP

3:462016Single
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Ultraviolet - EP
Ultraviolet - EP
Dagny
2nd September 2016
Track number
4
Release year
2016
  1. 1Fight Sleep
    3:51
  2. 2Ultraviolet
    3:41
  3. 3Too Young
    3:30
  4. 4Backbeat
    3:46
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    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Dagny, Sam McCarthy
    Producer
    Sam McCarthy
    Co-Producer
    Brendan Davies
    Bass
    Brendan Davies
    Drums
    Harry Mead
    Guitar
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