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LSD

Heaven Can Wait

Release date: 11th October 2018

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About This Track

Sia and Labrinth trade verses over Diplo's production on a track built around defiance in the face of mortality. The opening admits to bad news from a doctor, but the song refuses to dwell there; instead it pivots to an insistence on living, loving, breathing. The refrain "no, not today, baby, heaven can wait" becomes a mantra of postponement, a way of asserting agency against time's pressure. The arrangement gives each voice room to breathe. Sia's verses are direct and conversational; Labrinth's adopt a pleading tone, asking for favour and salvation. The chorus strips back to essentials, repeating the core demand across elongated vowels, letting the emotional weight accumulate through repetition rather than ornamentation. It is a song about urgency that moves without haste, measured in its refusal to panic.

"Heaven Can Wait" is a track by LSD, released 11th October 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Heaven Can Wait

[Verse 1: Sia]

The doctor just gave me the bad news

I've been living like a queen in a castle

Oh, dark spirits runnin' through me like a drive-thru

You'll be my music everybody getting high to

[Pre-Chorus: Labrinth & Sia]

Yeah, I know it

Yeah, I know it, now

Time is running

Time is running out

[Chorus: Labrinth & Sia]

I gotta live

Oh, oh-oh

I gotta love

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Said, I gotta breathe

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

No, this ain't it for me

No-no-no-no-no-no

[Post-Chorus]

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby

No, not today

[Verse 2: Labrinth]

Tick tock and I'm praying for time

You're my angel, put my heart on rewind

So, babe could you do me a favour? (A favour)

Girl, would you be my saviour?

Tick tock and I'm praying for time

[Pre-Chorus: Labrinth]

Yeah, I know it

Yeah, I know it, now

Time is running

Time is running out

[Chorus: Sia]

See, I gotta live

Oh, oh-oh

I gotta love

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Said, I gotta breathe

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

No, this ain't it for me

No-no-no-no-no-no

[Post-Chorus: Sia & Labrinth]

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

[Bridge: Labrinth]

No, this ain't it for me, no (Yeah)

[Outro: Sia]

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait, oh

No, not today, baby, heaven can wait

No, not today, baby

No, not today, babe

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Track details

Heaven Can Wait

2018
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2018

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Diplo, Jr. Blender, Labrinth, Sia
Producer
Diplo, Jr. Blender, Labrinth
Additional Production
Nathaniel Ledwidge
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