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Wisp

Mesmerized

Release date: 31st July 2025

From If Not Winter
Track 8
3:35
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About This Track

'Mesmerized' by Wisp is a 2025 song on the album 'If Not Winter'. The lyrics are steeped in wishful thinking and yearning, with a speaker held in a trance-like fascination, waiting to “collide” into someone’s light. Moments of night-time attraction and a sudden, obsessive lock-on to the other person’s presence are set against the desire to make time give way, ending on the hope that it will. The writing uses vivid, motion-led images, like headlight impact and close swaying, to frame infatuation as both pursuit and inevitability.

"Mesmerized" is a track by Wisp, from the album If Not Winter, released 31st July 2025. The track is 3:35 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Wisp.

About the Artist

Wisp

Wisp

Lyrics

Mesmerized

I know it's all just wishful thinking
Burn slow
I'll see you when I'm dreaming
Fall in close to me just once
Struck by your headlight
The night that it all begun
Locked into my sight

The way you sway
Leaves me

Mesmerized
I'm waiting to collide
Into your light
Hoping time will bring me
Bring me closer to
Closer to you
Know I'm willing to
Sacrifice my dignity for you

My desires come alive
Bless me with a wish tonight
Living in your trance on time
'Til you're by my side

The way you sway
Leaves me

Mesmerized
I'm waiting to collide
Into your light
Hoping time will bring me
Bring me closer to
Closer to you
Know I'm willing to
Sacrifice my dignity for you

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Track details

From If Not Winter

3:352025
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Album
If Not Winter
If Not Winter
Wisp
1st August 2025
Track number
8
Release year
2025
  1. 1Sword
    2:27
  2. 2Breathe onto me
    3:58
  3. 3Save me now
    3:02
  4. 4After dark
    2:55

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  6. Get back to me
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Photographic Memory, Wisp, Zach CapittiFenton
    Producer
    Photographic Memory, STINT, Zach CapittiFenton