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Tightrope

Release date: 9th December 2016

From Lost On You
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About This Track

LP builds 'Tightrope' around a central metaphor of precarious balance: two people navigating uncertainty together, urged to trust the process without looking back. The song pairs reassurance with resignation, its chorus cycling through the refrain "you never know" as both comfort and acknowledgement that faith and risk are inseparable. Musically, the track sustains tension across its three-and-a-half minutes, the arrangement holding space for LP's vocal to move between intimate verses and expansive, repeated choruses. The lyrics sketch a relationship suspended between hope and doubt. LP asks for surrender without guarantees, framing love as an act of learned courage: "you can always learn to fly, you never do until you do it". The song doesn't resolve its central conflict so much as embrace it, finding something almost exhilarating in the impossibility of knowing what comes next.

"Tightrope" is a track by LP, from the album Lost On You, released 9th December 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

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LP

LP

Lyrics

Tightrope

[Verse 1]

Hold on, I know you're scared

But you're so close to heaven

Eyes shut tight

Just pretend you're like a feather

Float on the clouds together

But don't look down, not ever

Don't ask why

Just look out into forever

[Pre-Chorus]

All this time

You're just trying not to lose it

You can always learn to fly

You never do until you do it

[Chorus]

Up high in the middle of nowhere

Don't know, but you'll know when you get there

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope it last but you know, you never know

Take a chance, we can dance up in midair

Feels so good I could die, but I don't care

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope we last but you know, you never know

You never know

[Verse 2]

We're just a step from fearless

Reach out for me, my dearest

Don't you cry

You don't know, you're almost near it

[Pre-Chorus]

All this time

You're just trying not to lose it

You can always learn to fly

You never do until you do it

[Chorus]

Up high in the middle of nowhere

Don't know, but you'll know when you get there

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope I last but you know, you never know

Take a chance, we can dance up in midair

Feels so good I could die, but I don't care

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope we last but you know, you never know

You'll never know

You never know

You never know

You never know

[Chorus]

Up high in the middle of nowhere

Don't know, but you'll know when you get there

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope I last but you know, you never know

Take a chance, we can dance up in midair

Feels so good I could die, but I don't care

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope we last but you know, you never know

Up high in the middle of nowhere

Don't know, but you'll know when you get there

Walk slow and low on a tightrope

Hope I last but you know, you never know

You'll never know

You never know

You never know

You never know

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2016
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    LP, Mike Del Rio, Nikolai Potthoff
    Producer
    Mike Del Rio, Nikolai Potthoff
    Engineer
    John Greenham, Rob Kinelski
    Guitar
    LP
    Arranger
    LP, Mike Del Rio, Nikolai Potthoff
    Background Vocals
    Mike Del Rio
    Mastering Engineer
    John Greenham
    Mixing Engineer
    Rob Kinelski
    Ukulele
    LP
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