Spoon hits a delicate contrast with this song about how love can change how a person sees the world.
It first starts out with just a drum set, guitar, and Britt’s distinctive growl.
However, at 2:17, the melody roughly cuts as a piano starts playing and the vocals cut out entirely.
While not the...
[Verse 1]
Whenever your love can find me
It break through the walls that bind me
It's breaking the walls that bind me
And I go out in the world
I make my case to the world
I sell the world unto the world
It asks me back again
It calls me Love, holds me tight
[Verse 2]
It peels off them ties that bind me
Mmm, I don't need a thing to remind me
That I'm part of the world
[Chorus]
I saw the light
I saw the light
And I felt all jeaned on in white
I felt so permanently alive
[Chorus]
I saw the light
I saw the light
And I felt all creamed on in white
I felt so permanently alive
[Chorus]
I saw the light
I saw the light
I saw the light
And I felt all creamed on in white
I felt so permanently alive
I Saw the Light was written by Britt Daniel.
I Saw the Light was produced by Jim Eno & Britt Daniel.
Spoon released I Saw the Light on Fri Jan 15 2010.