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Lights

Giants

Release date: 21st September 2017

From Skin&Earth
Track 9
3:16
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'Giants' by Lights is a 2017 pop track from the album 'Skin&Earth'. The lyrics sound restless and persuasive, asking whether staying put is draining someone’s spirit, then pitching escape from an overbearing city as a route to shared empowerment. The voice presses towards leaving, with repeated calls to “come rising up”, as the imagined destination becomes a place to regain power together. The song’s central images are height and pressure, city towers and powerless problems, set against the desire to get out and lift each other.

"Giants" is a single by Lights, from the album Skin&Earth, released 21st September 2017. The track is 3:16 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Lights.

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Giants

Are you getting tired of hanging around here?
Is it bringing you down?
We've been talking about how we could have no fear
If we got out of town

Oh, the city towers over us
And all our problems make us powerless
Let's get somewhere where the both of us come rising up
Come rising up

Where we could be giants
Bigger than the walls that hide us
Breaking all the laws of science
Looking at a sea of diamonds
If we could be, we could be giants, oh
If we could be giants, oh

I don't wanna be the one you can push by
At the back of the room
I would rather ride with you to the big sky
At the heart of the moon

Oh, the city towers over us
And all our problems make us powerless
Let's get somewhere where the both of us can come rising up

Where we could be giants
Bigger than the walls that hide us
Breaking all the laws of science
Looking at a sea of diamonds
If we could be, we could be giants, oh
If we could be giants, oh
If we could be, if we could be giants, oh, giants
If we could be giants, oh, giants

If we could come up, no one ever would defy us
Top of the world we'll be sitting at the highest
We could come up, no one ever would defy us
Top of the world we'll be sitting at the highest

Where we could be giants
Bigger than the walls that hide us
Breaking all the laws of science
Looking at a sea of diamonds
If we could be, we could be giants
Bigger than the walls that hide us
Breaking all the laws of science
Looking at a sea of diamonds
If we could be giants, if we could be giants
If we could be giants, if we could be giants

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Track details

From Skin&Earth

3:162017Single
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Skin&Earth
Lights
22nd September 2017
Track number
9
Release year
2017
  1. 1Intro
    0:34
  2. 2Skydiving
    2:56
  3. 3Until the Light
    3:26
  4. 4Savage
    3:20
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Iain James, Lights, Mick Schultz
    Producer
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    Bass
    Brian Schultz
    Drums
    Ryan Hoyle
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    Ted Jensen
    Mixing Engineer
    Manny Marroquin
    Vocal Producer
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