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The final single from Bastille’s 2022 album Give Me The Future, “Shut Off The Lights” is a song that channels the need for intimacy and physical connection with a soulmate in order to escape intrusive thoughts, as the lead singer Dan Smith further explained on Instagram:
[The song]’s about being pu...
[Verse 1]
I, I'm lost in my head again
Time travellin', runnin' a—, runnin' away
With darkness, my only friend
Don't wanna do this all again
You pull me back down to earth
Clothes off, your hands are on, hands are on me
Graceland-in' onto your bed, there you are
[Pre-Chorus]
In my head, there's a beat
It's the beat that you make when you're movin' your body
You prove that I can't escape
I can't escape
Got my heart in your hands
And your hands on my chest
In my chest, there's a breath
It's the breath that you take away
[Chorus]
And you said, "Shut off the lights, we don't need them to dancе"
Hey, oh-oh, you said, "Just shut off the lights, we don't need thеm to dance"
Oh-oh, oh, you said, "Just shut off the lights, shut off the lights"
[Verse 2]
We're drunk, we're invincible
No going quietly into the night
This room is our universe
You are my gravity tonight
No talk of the future now
Dark thoughts, you're shakin' 'em, takin' 'em out
This rhythm that we create sets me straight
[Pre-Chorus]
In my head, there's a beat
It's the beat that you make when you're movin' your body
You prove that I can't escape
I can't escape
Got my heart in your hands
And your hands on my chest
In my chest, there's a breath
It's the breath that you take away
[Chorus]
And you said, "Shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance"
Hey, oh-oh, you said, "Just shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance"
Oh, oh-oh, you said, "Just shut off the lights, shut off the lights"
[Post-Chorus]
Last night, you said, "Empty your head, be here with me
Shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance
Tune out the noise dor a moment"
You said, "Let's just shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance"
[Bridge]
Mmh, mmh-mmh, mmh-mmh, mmh-mmh
Oh-oh, you said, "Just shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance"
Mmh, mmh-mmh, mmh-mmh, mmh-mmh
(Oh, no, we don't, no, we don't, no, we don't, no, we don't, no, we don't, no, we don't, no, we don't, no, we don't) Oh-oh, you said, "Just shut off the lights, oh"
"Shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance"
[Outro]
Last night, you said, "Empty your head, be here with me
Shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance
Tune out the noise for a moment" (For a moment)
You said, "Let's just shut off the lights, we don't need them to dance"
Shut Off The Lights was written by Dan Smith & Plested & Jonny Coffer & Mark Crew.
Shut Off The Lights was produced by Jonny Coffer & Mark Crew & Dan Smith.
Bastille released Shut Off The Lights on Fri Jan 14 2022.
“Shut Off The Lights” is about being pulled out of your future-fearing anxieties by the person you’re lying next to. It’s about intimacy and physical connection, rejecting our worries about life and the future for a minute, and unplugging from it all to really be present. It’s a fun, real, human mom...
I love this song. It feels like us slightly channelling Paul Simon’s Graceland era, and it just makes me want to dance. It’s got loads of our really good friends playing brass all over it, Rittipo playing fucking amazing saxophone, all of our live-touring crew doing the backing vocals, which was a r...