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Grip

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Grip

Release date: 31st March 2022

From PEP

Track 13

3:11

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About This Track

'Grip' by Lights is a 2022 pop song from the album 'PEP'. The lyrics are a flirtatious, slightly confrontational rumination on attachment and control, with the singer pushing back on someone who frames their influence as harmless, even while repeating that their “grip” is hard to loosen. A bright, insistent insistence runs through lines about being distracted, staying everlasting, and avoiding further thought, as if the relationship is both balm and trap.

"Grip" is a track by Lights, from the album PEP, released 31st March 2022. The track is 3:11 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Lights.

About the Artist

Lights

Lights

Lyrics

Grip

Don't tell me it's a bad thing
Being with you is distracting
You'll be everlasting
On my lips

Your small manipulations
Of the palest imitations
Test the limitations
Of my grip

Of my grip
Of my grip
Of my grip
Grip, grip, grip

I don't wanna think anymore, not anymore
Never let my head down, head down
I'll close every door, every door
If it means I can keep on holding you now

I don't wanna think anymore, not anymore
Never let my head down, head down
I'll close every door, every door
If it means I can keep on holding you now

Grip
Grip
Grip
I don't wanna lose it

Grip
Grip
Grip
I don't wanna lose it

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Track details

From PEP

3:112022

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Album

Track number

13

Release year

2022

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4:12
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3:09
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4Salt and Vinegar
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Credits

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Writer: Dylan William, Lights
Producer: Dylan William
Mastering Engineer: Emily Lazar
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