“Lights” progressively gains power, energy, and intensity. For this reason, the song bears similarity to “Hands Away” from Turn On the Bright Lights.
The title seems to be a reference to the lights on a police vehicle. The main character is being apprehended by the authorities.
[Verse 1]
All that I see
Show me your ways
Teach me to meet my desires...
With some grace
[Verse 2]
All that I fear
Don't turn away
And leave me to plead in this hole of a place...
Cause what if I never break
Estuary won't you take me
Far away
Far away
[Verse 3]
All that I seek
Please police me
I want you to police me
But keep it clean
Uh...
[Bridge]
How have you been, my day
Now let's take them away
(That's why I hold you)
Strong as you've seen
Old as you behave
(That's why I hold you)
You will always obey
(That's why I hold you)
[Verse 4]
All that I feel
Capital ways
Teach me to grieve and conspire
With my age
[Verse 5]
All that I can see
Domestic spree
A seething routine
I could never navigate
Maybe I like to stray
[Bridge]
No heart unseen will be left so clean
Not today
It's like you want it that way
[Verse 6]
All that I see
Is peaceful eyes drawn away from me
Drawn away from me
(Drawn away from me)
[Bridge]
We would like to take the sights
(That's why I hold you)
And bring silence in disguise
(That's why I hold you, dear)
We would like to meet the buyer
(That's why I hold you)
That is all your life
[Refrain]
That's why I hold you
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That's why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That's why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you
That is why I hold you dear
That's why I hold you, hold you, hold you, hold you, hold you, hold you, hold you...