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We Were Here by Lights

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Lights

We Were Here

Release date: 21st September 2017

From Skin&Earth
Track 7
3:50
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About This Track

'We Were Here' by Lights is a 2017 Pop track from the album 'Skin&Earth'. The lyrics place the speaker in an after-hours mood, drifting through rooftop scenes and sleepless nights, with a cavalier attitude towards money and consequences. There is also a clear note of self-judgement, culminating in the frank confession, “I'm no good”. Overall, it moves with a restless, youthful recklessness, lacing dirty thoughts and roaming imagery with a sense of messy immediacy, as if the night is both the plan and the problem.

"We Were Here" is a track by Lights, from the album Skin&Earth, released 21st September 2017. The track is 3:50 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Lights.

About the Artist

Lights

Lights

Lyrics

We Were Here

(We were here)
Rooftops, dirty thoughts, all I got is twenty bucks
Nights so breezy make it look easy
Local cuts, pizza crust, leave a message on the bus
Full moon howling, let's go prowling
Spend some time burn the money
Yeah we're gonna coast through shit we got into
I'm no good, not tryna be
Yeah we got issues, take a flag with you
Dressed up, messed up put on a show
So the whole damn world's gonna know
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Running round, blackin' out
Young bloods burning it down
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Setting flames, taking names, just cause we own the town
We gonna write it
Solid as gold
We're gonna make it
So they gonna know
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
We were here
Photobooth, kissing youth, midnight bulletproof
Night so hazy, lay back lazy
Slow burn, fighting words, show them how the fire works
Make an impression, teach 'em all a lesson
Dressed up, messed up, put on a show
So the whole damn world's gonna know
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Running round, blackin' out
Young bloods burning it down
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Setting flames, taking names, just cause we own the town
We gonna write it
Solid as gold
We're gonna make it
So they gonna know
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
We were here
We were here
We were here
We were here (here)
We were here
Dressed up, messed up, put on a show
So the whole damn world's gonna know
Dressed up, messed up, put on a show
So the whole damn world's gonna know
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Running round, blackin' out
Young bloods burning it down
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Setting flames, taking names, just cause we own the town
We gonna write it
Solid as gold
We're gonna make it
So they gonna know
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
That we were here (yeah, yeah, yeah)
We were here
We were here (ooh)
We were here (ooh)
We were here (ooh)
We were here (ooh)
We were here (ooh)
We were here (that we were here) (ooh)
We were here (that we were there) (ooh)
We were here

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Track details

From Skin&Earth

3:502017
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Album
Skin&Earth
Skin&Earth
Lights
22nd September 2017
Track number
7
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
    KOZ, Lights, Todd Clark
    Producer
    KOZ
    Guitar
    Lights
    Additional Engineering
    Adam Chagnon
    Additional Production
    Benjamin Rice
    Instrumentation
    KOZ
    Mastering Engineer
    Ted Jensen
    Mixing Engineer
    Chris Lord-Alge
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