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ILLENIUM

Lonely

Release date: 16th August 2019

From Ascend
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About This Track

Illenium and vocalist Chandler Leighton build 'Lonely' around a simple, aching proposition: the offer to love someone out of their isolation. Leighton's voice carries the weight of that plea across the chorus, whilst the verses sketch a relationship in collapse, one where touch has gone numb and listening has become a one-way street. The song moves between tenderness and accusation, between the desire to heal and the damage already done. The track closes the album Ascend with a production that mirrors its emotional arc. Where the verses are spare and intimate, the drops arrive with the kind of swelling synth work that defines Illenium's approach to electronic music, lifting the vocal hook into something almost transcendent. It is a song about connection that uses distance and space as its primary tool, letting silence do as much work as sound.

"Lonely" is a track by ILLENIUM, from the album Ascend, released 16th August 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

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ILLENIUM

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Lyrics

Lonely

[Chorus]

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

[Verse 1]

If you only loved yourself

Don't take it out on someone else, ooh, ooh

If you knew what love was worth

It'd bring your head back down to earth, ooh, ooh

[Chorus]

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

[Drop]

[Verse 2]

You used to touch me like you never felt a thing

I was talking to myself when I thought you were listening

You could've left before, was it fun watching me bleed?

Were you taking your time when you left your scars on me?

[Chorus]

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

[Drop]

[Chorus]

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

Won't you let me love the lonely out of you, out of you?

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Track details

From Ascend

2019
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Ascend
Ascend
ILLENIUM
16th August 2019
Release year
2019
  1. —Every Piece of Me
  2. —Gorgeous
  3. —That's Why
  4. —Hold On
  5. —Lonely
  6. —All Together
  7. —Angel (Lonely Prelude)
  8. —Broken Ones
  9. —In Your Arms
  10. —I Care (Intro)
  11. —Sad Songs
  12. —In Your Arms (with X Ambassadors)
    3:41
  13. —Lonely (with Chandler Leighton)
    4:31
  14. —Hold On (with Georgia Ku)
    3:55
  15. —That’s Why (with GOLDN)
    4:13

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Production & Engineering

Writer
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