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Editors

Lights

Release date: 24th July 2005

From The Back Room
Track 1
2:31
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About This Track

'Lights' by Editors is a 2005 alternative track from 'The Back Room'. In the lyrics, the singer clings to a light left on, kept awake by it yet unwilling to stop watching. Wanting everything that feels close, they anticipate it will not last, then move into a mix of bravado and plainspoken poverty, listing a mind full of things to say. The closing idea returns to the same devotion to the light on, as if the song’s central reassurance is also its own confinement. One line puts it simply: ‘I still love the light on’.

"Lights" is a track by Editors, from the album The Back Room, released 24th July 2005. The track is 2:31 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Editors.

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Editors

Editors

Lyrics

Lights

I still love the light on, baby
It keeps me awake but I don't mind

Everything I always wanted
Is right there but soon it won't be

Oh, if fortune favours the brave
I am as poor, poor as they come
I've got a million things to say
I've got a million things to

I still love the light on baby
It keeps me awake but I don't mind
Everything I always wanted
Is right there but soon it won't be

Oh, if fortune favours the brave
I am as poor, poor as they come
I've got a million things to say
I've got a million things to—

I still love the light on, baby
I still love the light on, baby
I still love the light on, baby
I still love the light on, baby

Oh, if fortune favours the brave
I am as poor, poor as they come
I've got a million things to say

I've got a million things to
Ah, a million things to say
A million things to say
A million things to say

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Track details

From The Back Room

2:312005
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Album
The Back Room
The Back Room
Editors
25th July 2005
Track number
1
Release year
2005
  1. 1Lights
    2:31
  2. 2Munich
    3:46
  3. 3Blood
    3:29
  4. 4Fall
    5:06

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