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Hurts

Spotlights

Release date: 28th September 2017

From Desire
Track 11
3:20
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About This Track

'Spotlights' by Hurts is a 2017 pop track from the album 'Desire'. The lyrics paint a spellbound, determined pursuit, with the singer insisting they “won’t quit” while the other person is framed as untouchable. Beneath the performance glow of spotlights, the perspective shifts to concealment and vanishing, as a shadow becomes harder to find and the self fades into the night. The repeated image of stage light turns romance into a kind of theatre, where visibility is both invitation and erasure.

"Spotlights" is a track by Hurts, from the album Desire, released 28th September 2017. The track is 3:20 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Hurts.

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Hurts

Hurts

Lyrics

Spotlights

A-a-ah
There's something about you, girl
You're straight from another world
And I won't quit
A-a-ah
I feel invincible
And you're so untouchable
But I won't quit
 
Underneath spotlights
My shadow's hard to find
Underneath spotlights
I fade into the night
 
A-a-ah
I said there's something about you, girl
And you're irresistible
So I won't quit
No, I won't quit
 
Underneath spotlights
My shadow's hard to find
Underneath spotlights
I fade into the night
 
(Spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
(I see the spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
(Spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
(I see the spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
 
Underneath spotlights
My shadow's hard to find
Underneath spotlights
I fade into the night
 
(Spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
(I see the spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
(Spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)
(I see the spotlights, hit the band)
(And they're making you feel like Superman)

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Track details

From Desire

3:202017
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Album
Desire
Desire
Hurts
29th September 2017
Track number
11
Release year
2017
  1. 1Beautiful Ones
    3:02
  2. 2Ready to Go
    2:46
  3. 3People Like Us
    3:39
  4. 4Something I Need to Know
    3:31

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  • 5Thinking of You
    3:19
  • 6Wherever You Go
    3:38
  • 7Chaperone
    2:52
  • 8Boyfriend
    2:49
  • 9Walk Away
    3:45
  • 10Wait Up
    4:08
  • 11Spotlights
    3:20
  • 12Hold on to Me
    3:02
  • 13Magnificent
    4:23
  • —Desire (Intro)

    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Adam Anderson, Chenai Zinyuku, Lael Goldberg, Theo Hutchcraft
    Producer
    Hurts, Lael Goldberg
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