All The Little Lights Lyrics

[Verse 1]
One went out at a bus-stop in Edinburgh
One went out in an English park
One went out in a night club, when I was fifteen
Little lights in my heart

[Verse 2]
One went out when I lied to my mother
Said the cigarettes she found were not mine
One went out within me
Now I smoke like a chimney
It's getting dark in this heart of mine
It's getting dark in this heart of mine

[Chorus]
We're born with millions
Of little lights shining in the dark
And they show us the way
One lights up, every time you feel love in your heart
One dies when it moves away

[Verse 3]
One went out in the back streets of Manchester
One went out in an airport in Spain
One went out, have no doubt
When I grew up and moved out
Of the place where the boy used to play
[Verse 4]
One went out when uncle Ben got his tumor
We used to fish and I fish no more
Though we will not return
I know one still burns
On a fishing boat of the New Jersey Shore
On a fishing boat of the New Jersey Shore


[Chorus]
We're born with millions
Of little lights shining in the dark
And they show us the way
One lights up, every time you feel love in your heart
One dies when it moves away
We're born with millions
Of little lights shining in our hearts
And they die along the way
Till we're old and we're cold
And we're lying in the dark
Cause they'll all burn out one day
They'll all burn out one day
Oh oh, they'll all burn out one day
They'll all burn out one day
Yeah

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From Passenger’s fourth studio album “All The Little Lights”.

At each of these places and times in his life, he lost a piece of his innocence or a “little light”. This whole song is about how when we’re young we have all these little lights but as we get older and live life a bit more, we realize that we are slowly losing all our little lights and that they’ll all be gone or “burnt out” one day.

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Recorded At
Linear Recording, Sydney
Release Date
February 24, 2012
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