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Lights Out Lyrics
Lights Out
Shoot up the station
TV's dead, where's there to run?
Watch everybody come undone
Lights Out
Won't make it easy, wont make it fun
Wont let them see now, how they have won
Still I'll go another round
Chorus:
Darlin'
Don't got to worry you're locked in tight
Darlin'
Now don't you worry turn out the lights
(must be worth it 'cause the more I try the more it gets uneven,
I can shake it I keep thinking but it's with me for a reason)
Wiped Out
No concentration
They got us basking in a storm
I watch it as it loses form
I doubt
They even see me
Guess what I want
A casualty but
I am up front
And I know what it's about
Chorus
I'm still here shaking my head
The one you can't account for
I keep just one step ahead
There's no place to run
Chorus
Shoot up the station
TV's dead, where's there to run?
Watch everybody come undone
Lights Out
Won't make it easy, wont make it fun
Wont let them see now, how they have won
Still I'll go another round
Darlin'
Don't got to worry you're locked in tight
Darlin'
Now don't you worry turn out the lights
I can shake it I keep thinking but it's with me for a reason)
No concentration
They got us basking in a storm
I watch it as it loses form
I doubt
They even see me
Guess what I want
A casualty but
I am up front
And I know what it's about
The one you can't account for
I keep just one step ahead
There's no place to run
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Here are the corrected lyrics from the Santigold MySpace page. Any other way for us to submit corrections in a way that they'll get seen?
Lights Out Shoot up the station TV's dead, where's there to run? Watch everybody come undone Lights Out Won't make it easy, wont make it fun Wont let them see now, how they have won Still I'll go another round
Chorus: Darlin' Don't got to worry you're locked in tight Darlin' Now don't you worry turn out the lights
(must be worth it 'cause the more I try the more it gets uneven, I can shake it I keep thinking but it's with me for a reason)
Wiped Out No concentration They got us basking in a storm I watch it as it loses form I doubt They even see me Guess what I want A casualty but I am up front And I know what it's about
Chorus
I'm still here shaking my head The one you can't account for I keep just one step ahead There's no place to run
Chorus
To be fair, the lyrics written by the author above sound more correct than the "official" lyrics, but just thought I'd post them as "corrections" because they serve to provide some insight.
To be fair, the lyrics written by the author above sound more correct than the "official" lyrics, but just thought I'd post them as "corrections" because they serve to provide some insight.
lyrics correction. Thank you for this one.
lyrics correction. Thank you for this one.
This song is also about the superior drinkability of new Bud Light Lime, along with images of surf and beach that the beer evokes.
Not sure of what it's about other then a black out? But to me it has such a 1985ish feel. Lovin' it!
Problem;The band's name is "SantOgold",not "SantIgold".;)But anyways-great song!:)
Problem;The band's name is "SantOgold",not "SantIgold".;)But anyways-great song!:)
I want to hug this song.
Could this be any catchier? DAAAAAAAAAAAAARLING.
This is a commentary on the public's mindless obedience of the omnipresent media. Television takes away our ability to think for ourselves and replaces it with turmoil and fear. Without television, we gain freedom: "wiped out / no concentration / they got us basking in a storm / I watch as it loses form."
In a subversive fantasy, this song imagines the downfall of that media. The chaos that ensues is unpleasant. The media is not so easily taken down, but this grassroots insurgency will not be deterred. The singer is insignificant in their eyes ("I doubt they even see me") but her ideals are to be reckoned with ("I'm... the one you can't account for / I keep just one step ahead / There's no place to run.")
Meanwhile, she urges the listener to think critically for him/herself, to step away from the fear generated by the media, and to be willing to step away from it.
Define irony...
Define irony...
Think you nailed it, more or less. Lyrics don't match the song, similar to the message of the song.
Think you nailed it, more or less. Lyrics don't match the song, similar to the message of the song.
I fucking love this song.
It's like they've extracted the active metabolite of pop music and injected an MIA album with concentrated amounts. Really mellows out the high.
God I want to f*ck MIA... Ahem. Yeah best album of the year. Not sure this song really means anything. Ah the possibilities of a vaccuum.
To me this is about her sort of taking on this persona in which she's snapped due to all the pressures and hypocrisy of day-to-day life, technology, the media, etc., and starts wreaking havoc and chaos (or at least imagining/fantasizing about herself doing so). At the same time, she's reassuring someone she loves, who possibly feels similarly lost in the modern world but doesn't hold the same rage towards it, that her "darling" is safe and has nothing to fear from her, and should just turn away and ignore what she's doing. So basically, someone who's snapped and has gone insane is professing their love for this person who's afraid of them while intertwined with their fantasis of rampage and destruction. I don't know, I just kind of envision these random scenarios in my head whenever I hear a good song with ambiguous lyrics, probably not actually the case, but it's what I imagined. :)
Me too! Not sure what it's about tho