Lights

[pearson]

tell me some stories about this fantastic song!


great lyrics and an amazing atmosphere...i love this track!

what the truth of this song?
drugs?
find a new way in your life?

[nick the stripper]

It's all about speed.

Ignore the voices discard the day. Could the voices be his conscious questioning whether "discarding the day" is a good idea?

For the brand new darkness for the bright new way. He's changing lanes, going into a darker yet more exciting lane in his life.

well there have been better plans but none that I could ever understand. These have to be among my favorite lines Von has written. The plan is probably just going wherever the lights tell him and not thinking about it.

I see the emerald signal see the green on black. The emerald signaling is obviously speed calling to him and the green on black is a traffic lights, a metaphor for how he's going to move through life.

I see the light say move say never look back. Obviously the traffic light metaphor again.

Red turns green is an obvious reference to traffic lights. Red means stop, green means go, go, go ala speed.

And so I find another place where I’ll never been seen. A private place to do a line or two without being interrupted by anyone you wouldn't want to see you doing what you're doing?

Find another place where the red turns green. Evidently yes, a place to do a few lines and go, go, go.

The lights shine clear through the sodium haze. Even though he's in a disoriented mental state caused by too much, he's still going.

But there’s a voice in the distance quiet and clear/saying something that I never ever wanted to hear. Is this a sign of things to come? Psychosis? It's interesting how it's a voice, instead of voices as in an earlier line.

Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain rain rain
And I’m happy here

These last three lines seem dark compared to the "enthusiasm" found in the other lines. It reminds me of the lines "life is short and life is cruel, but we have beer and we have fuel" in driver but with an ounce of pessimism or depression.

This is all off the top of my head, so forgive me if I've gotten anything wrong.

[Dark]

Traffic lights and streetlights.

[James Blast]

It's about being extremely pished/stoned and walking home from the pub/club on a foggy winter's night.

Next!

[Elfeyth]

great lyrics and an amazing atmosphere...i love this track!

Sorry - I don't want to spoil the song for anyone - but I've always the lyrics to 'Lights' a bit irritating, despite being a huge fan of most other Sisters tracks.

What I didn't like was all the traffic light imagery - I guess it just seems such a mundane, even obvious metaphor to use. I do like the atmosphere of the song though - and the tortured vocal and the fact that it is open to interpretation. All about 'speed' eh?

Traffic lights - I just hate sitting at the damn things.

x X x

[eastmidswhizzkid]

It's about being extremely pished/stoned and walking home from the pub/club on a foggy winter's night.

Next!

...and on speed.

[Dead_Rock]

It's about being extremely pished/stoned and walking home from the pub/club on a foggy winter's night.

This whole thing with the lights sounds just like what I've experienced often when drunk and on my way home alone...

And so I find a place where I've never been seen

Puking / pissing? Again, been there, done that...

Dunno, that song's far too slow and moody for a song about Speed...

[James Blast]

just posting from my own experience of many a stagger home where I ended up in some odd places that I knew the scene but knew not a soul

allas made it back tae ma scratcher BTW

[eastmidswhizzkid]

for some reason (nothing to do with the enormous-but-dwindling-fast bag of speed or being very drunk) i suddenly had the urge to sing "the lights shine clear through the marlboro haze"....thought i'd share that with you.

[mh]

Aye, if you've ever staggered home when it's raining, completely out of your head, with no idea whatsoever where you are or where you're going, but totally obstinately reliant on the beer (or whatever) compass to get you there, then you know Lights pretty intimately.

There have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand

Like getting a taxi, for starters!

[Little_Sister]

hehe you all knew long before ^^ today in school it occurred to me for the first time that he sings about traffic lights xD (maybe it's because I dind't have my driving licence yet at the time I listend to the song for the first time)

[Silver_Owl]

Here's the original lyrics used on the demo...

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights,
No matter where they've been.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights,
But only when they're green.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights,
No matter where they've been.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights,
But only when they're green.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
That is what I said.

I Like traffic lights
I Like traffic lights
I Like traffic lights,
But not when they are red.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
That is what he said.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights,
But not when they are red.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights,
Although my name's not Bamber.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I-- Oh, God!

[centurionofprix]

I don't know if it's an intentional allusion on Vons part, but the use of the green light imagery to signify having to continue somewhere in life is a bit reminiscent of The Great Gatsby:

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning----

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Vs

Well there have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand
I see the emerald signal see the green on black
I see the light say move say never look back
And so I find another place where I’ll never be seen
Find another place where the red turns green
Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain rain rain
And I’m happy here
In the rain
etc.

[Desmond]

Nice lyrics,.
Can anybody share the lyrics of the songs of titanic,.