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White Lies – What I Need (2016) | Track profile | Dork

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White Lies
Friends
What I Need

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What I Need

Release date: 2016

Alternative Music

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"What I Need" is a track by White Lies, from the album Friends, released 2016. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about White Lies.

About the Artist

White Lies

White Lies

Lyrics

What I Need

[Verse 1]

Rain keeps coming down

On our unhappy town

Grey it's bleak parade

Little drops of heaven's shade

Rain keeps coming down

On children in their paper crowns

Daylight torn away

Litter for the night to raid

[Pre-Chorus]

Feeling low

My eyes long to glow

My limbs turn numb

And I know the day is won

[Chorus]

Give me some of what I need and

Give me more to take away

Sunshine for my sweet relief and

Honey through these bitter days

[Verse 2]

Rain keeps coming down

Beating colour to the ground

Teeth spat from wicked mouths

Shrieking up above the clouds

Rain, rain all around

Oh, you know it gets me down

I cannot leave my home

Leave the TV, leave the phone

[Pre-Chorus]

Breathing slow

My heart only knows

The rain falls deep

Drumming down, down on me

[Chorus]

Give me some of what I need and

Give me more to take away

Sunshine for my sweet relief and

Honey through these bitter days

Give me some of what I need and

Give me more to take away

Sunshine for my sweet relief and

Honey through these bitter days

Give me some of what I need and

Give me more to take away

Sunshine for my sweet relief and

Honey through these bitter days

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Friends

2016

Listen

Album

7th October 2016

Release year

2016

1Take It Out on Me
3:51
2Morning in LA
3:20
3Hold Back Your Love
4:59
4Don't Want to Feel It All
4:19
5Is My Love Enough?
5:55
6Summer Didn't Change a Thing
4:03
7Swing
5:32
8Come On
4:08
9Right Place
4:18
10Don't Fall
3:43
—Son of a Gun (Demo)
—Summer Didn't Change A Thing (Demo)
—Morning in LA (Demo)
—Give a Sign
—What I Need
—8913 (Demo)
—Friends
—Where Do I Go?

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Charles Cave, Harry McVeigh, Jack Lawrence-Brown
Producer: Charles Cave, Harry McVeigh, Jack Lawrence-Brown