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Hurts – Lights (2015) | Track profile | Dork

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Hurts
Surrender (Deluxe)
Lights

SINGLE

Lights

Release date: 8th October 2015

From Surrender (Deluxe)Track 6

3:31

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About This Track

‘Lights’ by Hurts is a 2015 pop track from the album ‘Surrender (Deluxe)’. The lyrics frame a lonely desire for connection, setting the scene around dancing alone and watching oneself from the outside. They press for movement and courage, urging someone to get up and shake off the dark, while proposing the chance to begin again. A line trails off into the singer’s dependence on that moment when you finally rise, turning the song’s loneliness into a kind of duet-in-aim, even before the words can fully land.

"Lights" is a single by Hurts, from the album Surrender (Deluxe), released 8th October 2015. The track is 3:31 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Hurts.

About the Artist

Hurts

Hurts

Lyrics

Lights

Do you know what it feels like to dance alone?
Do you know what it feels like?
Do you know what it looks like from the outside?
Do you know what it looks like?

Won't you get up, shaking the darkness?
Won't you get up?
And we could just start this now
'Cause when you get up I couldn't deny that
You're the one I want at my side tonight
Turn up the lights

I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you
Turn up the lights
I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you dancing

Do you know what it feels like to be the one
Out here on the dance floor just watching up?
Do you know what it hurts like to be left alone?
Do you know what it hurts like?

'Cause when you get up I couldn't deny that
You're the one I want at my side tonight

Turn up the lights
I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you
Turn up the lights
I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you dancing

When the lights are turn too low for me
In the dark I feel you close to me
You're the one that I want to see
You're the one that I want to see

When the lights are turn too low for me
In the dark I feel you close to me
You're the one that I want to see
You're the one that I want to see
When the lights are turn too low for me
In the dark I feel you close to me
You're the one that I want to see
You're the one for me

Turn up the lights
I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you
Turn up the lights
I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you dancing (I wanna see you)

I just wanna see you dancing
I just wanna see you (I wanna see you dancing)
I wanna see you
I wanna see you
I wanna see you
I wanna see you

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Track details

From Surrender (Deluxe)

3:312015Single

Listen

Album

Surrender (Deluxe)

9th October 2015

Track number

6

Release year

2015

1Surrender
1:17
2Some Kind of Heaven
3:19
3Why
3:28
4Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us
4:03

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6Lights

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Writer: Adam Anderson, Ariel Rechtshaid, Nicholas Hodgeson, Theo Hutchcraft
Producer: Ariel Rechtshaid

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