Lights

Album: Lights (2011)
Charted: 49 2
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  • I had a way then
    Losing it all on my own
    I had a heart then
    But the queen has been overthrown
    And I'm not sleeping now
    The dark is too hard to beat
    And I'm not keeping up
    The strength I need to push me

    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
    You shine it when I'm alone
    And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone
    'Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home
    Calling, calling, calling home
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
    You shine it when I'm alone

    Noises, I play within my head
    Touch my own skin
    And hope that I'm still breathing
    And I think back to when
    My brother and my sister slept
    In an unlocked place
    The only time I feel safe

    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
    You shine it when I'm alone
    And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone
    'Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home
    Calling, calling, calling home
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
    You shine it when I'm alone

    Home, home

    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
    You shine it when I'm alone
    And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone
    'Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home
    Calling, calling, calling home
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
    You shine it when I'm alone

    Home, home
    Home, home Writer/s: Ash Howes, Elena Goulding, Richard Stannard
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • J. Johnson from Utahi actually wrote this song by myself with no help.

    In Utah until recently, and in early hollywood, most homes were able to leave their front doors unlocked.

    My grandma told me a particular story about why we lock the doors to get me to remember to lock the doors because i never would. Its just about a time period where mormons could do that. My brothers were my mormon brothers and sisters. I don't really have any brothers that are living.

    It was a weird night when i decided to go through with finishing the song but other than that it was to remind me to do something we never had to do before and having to ask why questions.
  • Olivia from TexasWhat does the "where my brother and my sister slept in a unlocked place the only place I feel safe," part mean?
  • AnonymousThis is me favorite song since i was a baby okay. I know the full Lyrics.
  • Meredith from TennesseeLove this song
  • Dee from KansasWhat is the song form? I mean, is it AABA? AABC? Tin Pan Alley song form?
  • Donna from Leesburg, FlAnyone know what this song is supposed to be about?
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