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Lights – Tabs (2019) | Track profile | Dork

Tracks
Lights
Skin&Earth Acoustic
Tabs

TRACK

Tabs

Release date: 11th July 2019

From Skin&Earth Acoustic

Track 8

3:41

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About This Track

‘Tabs’ by Lights is a pop track from the album ‘Skin&Earth Acoustic’, released in 2019. The lyrics paint a breathless, early-night invitation, with wine imagery and a push to leave immediately, framed as devotion and uplift, “lift me up like helium”. There is an insistence on urgency, a sense of being kept in motion, and a request to keep that feeling going until morning. The overall tone is romantic and kinetic, all momentum and forward-driving reassurance.

"Tabs" is a track by Lights, from the album Skin&Earth Acoustic, released 11th July 2019. The track is 3:41 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Lights.

About the Artist

Lights

Lights

Lyrics

Tabs

Baby the night is young
Pour us up a sauvignon
And let the feeling come
Bring me back to the morning sun

There's no time to waste anymore
Don't waste my time
C'mon give me out the door
I know you've always been the one
To lift me up like helium

Baby keep on doing it
Ain't ever gotta stop
Just keep on doing it
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Baby don't hold back
Let's do it up like that
Keep on doing it
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Tabs on us

This ain't gonna be poetry (Poetry)
I'm a hella harder to read (Harder to read)
And I can barely breathe (I can barely breathe)
But baby I know you're feeling me

There no time to place anymore
Oh, grab my waist, baby
Get me on the floor (Grab my waist, get me on the floor)
I know you'll always be the one (Be the one)
To pick me up when the night is done

So baby keep on doing it
Ain't never gotta stop
Just keep on doing it
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Baby don't hold back
Let's do it up like that
Keep on doing it
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Tabs on us
Nobody's keeping tabs on us

Baby keep on doing it
Ain't never gotta stop
Just keep on doing it
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Baby don't hold back
Let's do it up like that
Baby keep on doing it
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Tabs on us
Nobody's keeping tabs on us
Nobody's keeping tabs on us

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Track details

From Skin&Earth Acoustic

3:412019

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Album

Skin&Earth Acoustic

Track number

8

Release year

2019

1Skydiving (Cliff Recording)
3:57
2Until the Light (Truck Cab Recording)
3:35
3Savage (Rain Recording)
4:05
4New Fears (Bedroom Recording)

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Grip (dEd version)dEd
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2:59
Salt and Vinegar (dEd version)dEd
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5We Were Here (Tunnel Recording)

6Kicks (River Recording)

7Almost Had Me (Desert Recording)

8Tabs

3:41

—Savage (Rain Recording/Acoustic)

—We Were Here (Tunnel Recording/Acoustic)

—Almost Had Me (Desert Recording/Acoustic)

—Kicks (River Recording/Acoustic)

—New Fears (Bedroom Recording/Acoustic)

—Skydiving (Cliff Recording/Acoustic)

—Until the Light (Truck Cab Recording/Acoustic)

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Lights
Producer: Lights
Mastering Engineer: Aya Merrill
Mixing Engineer: Lights

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