Released: November 5, 2013

Featuring: Rosalee Pfeffer

Songwriter: M.I.A. Rosalee Pfeffer Sugu Arulpragasam

Producer: Sugu Switch

[Intro] x24
Lights they bend and

[Verse 1]
Lights they bend and jump and always move really fast
Colors emerge light box had me in their grasp
We be rocking, we be rocking rocking in the car
Lights in sky goddess bumping a sitar
These lights yeah, these lights yeah
Green colors looking nice yeah
Turn it up too loud all the lights will turn red
If you upstairs you can hear it in the bed
Rainbows in my vision move into the rhythm
Electic shadows in my ear got me dancing spinnin'
Northern lights on my mind all the colors rhyme
Loving me all the time keep that on your timeline
I keep my distance even though I shine
For me to tell you things you need to be the right kind
Even though it’s clear like a street sign
Some people don’t get it so I keep 'em in line
It’s good to take a minute and take it all in
It’s so important sometimes that I blow off steam
Got to get another sweater from my helicopter
Got to get a closer look at what they all stick at
Doesn’t need some lights that I used to trick out
I got them from a Chinese dude I went to check out
People need to get some and put some in your pocket
You might need some later when you finally unlock it

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
Lights on ring cameras and things
Flashing like bling love loving when I sing
Sparkles on the charcoal as a fire lit up
Headlights off a power in the city lit up
All I wanna, all I wanna, all I wanna do
Is roll through the city star gazing with you
Lights a selector, original nutter
I used to be a bad girl now I’m even better
I don’t keep on berreta
I don’t sell like a shotta
I don’t often twitter
They still see me as a threat er
I’m counter to the counter
Put your money on the counter
I’m standing at the counter say, "Hi!" to my hunter
I did as freaking Santa
I eat at benne hanna
I can make em feel good
I’m running youth centers
I’m aiming for the centers
Sending light beams to sender
I think we can make it
So sip a little winner

[Hook]

M.I.A.

One of the most musically-diverse and perplexing artists of the 2000s, Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam is arguably the decade’s best representation of Hip-Hop in its truest form and artistry in its broadest, most diverse format. Her lyrics are as political as Public Enemy, her sound is more eclectic than Stankonia-era Outkast, and she is as aesthetically-driven as Kanye West.

The road that M.I.A. was forced to travel to international stardom was not an easy one. Born on July 18th, 1975 in Hounslow, West London to Sri-Lankan Tamil immigrants, she moved to her parents' homeland when she was only six months old. However, it was the Sri Lankan Civil War which came to shape her childhood. During her formative years, she witnessed many her father was hunted as an enemy of the state, her schools were bombarded, and her impoverished family was constantly in hiding. In 1986, her family moved back to London to find stability and a sense of relative peace.

In England, she discovered her artistic talents and completed several years of secondary education in fine art – eventually gaining attention as a visual artist, painter, and musician. In the early-2000s, Maya began to seriously explore her musical talents and used the internet and underground radio as the means to build her reputation as a unique and talented firebrand. Amidst her no-nonsense politics, however, critics from around the world heard a talent in the making.