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Not Your Kind of People (Deluxe Version)
Bright Tonight

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Bright Tonight

Release date: 11th May 2012

From Not Your Kind of People (Deluxe Version)

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About This Track

"Bright Tonight" is a track by Garbage, from the album Not Your Kind of People (Deluxe Version), released 11th May 2012. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Garbage.

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Lyrics

Bright Tonight

[Verse 1]

From the beginning

We were always going to fail

We were the next thing

That the world could not wait to tear down

[Pre-Chorus]

Off balance in our own minds

Off balance in the ways we looked to everybody else

On and on all summer long, we never stood a chance

[Chorus]

Shine bright tonight

Live forever always bright tonight

You be who you are

You be who you are forever

You be who you are

You're my brightest star across the sky

You're bright tonight

[Verse 2]

It was right now

And then suddenly it's gone

We were both wrong

But here we are, we're right where we belong

[Pre-Chorus]

Off balance in our own lives

Off balance in the ways we looked to everybody else

On and on all summer long, we never stood a chance

[Chrous]

Shine bright tonight

Live forever always bright tonight

Yeah, you

You be who you are

You be who you are forever

You be who you are

You're my brightest star across the sky

You're bright tonight

[Outro]

You're bright tonight

You're bright tonight

You're bright tonight

You're bright tonight

You shine tonight

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Track details

From Not Your Kind of People (Deluxe Version)

2012

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Album

Not Your Kind of People (Deluxe Version)

Release year

2012

—What Girls Are Made Of
3:49
—Show Me
5:15
—The One
4:45
—Show Me
—Bright Tonight
—What Girls Are Made Of
—Love Like Suicide
—The One

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