Anthem Lights

Released: June 27, 2016

Songwriter: Zara Larsson MNEK Astronomyy Tove Lo Justin Tranter Julia Michaels Mattias Larsson Robin Fredriksson

Close, ooh
You'll always be by my side
Oh, so close, ooh
I'll love you 'til the day I die

I used to be so happy, but without you here I feel so low
I watched you as you left, but I can never seem to let you go
Oh man, oh man, oh man
I'm so perplexed with just one breath, I'm locked in
Oh man, oh man, oh man
I'm so perplexed, oh, that it's almost shocking, oh

'Cause once upon a time you were my everything
It's clear to see that time hasn't change a thing
'Cause space was just a word made up
By someone who's afraid to get too

Close, ooh
You'll always be by my side
Oh, so close, ooh
I'll love you 'til the day I die

Oh man, oh man
I am not really known for ever being speechless
But now, but now somehow
My words roll off my tongue right onto your lips
Funny how we both end up here, but everything seems alright
I wonder what would happen if we went back and put up a fight, oh
'Cause if I want you, I want you baby
Ain't going backwards, won't ask for space
So what in this world do you think could ever take you off my mind

I will never forget you (oh, oh)
You will always be my side (so close)
From the day that I met you (oh, oh)
I want you close, and close ain't close enough, no
Feeling it, loving it, everything that we do
And all along I knew I had something special with you
But sometimes you just gotta know that these things fall through
I can't hide my connection with you

Close, oh
Oh, so close, oh
I will never want much more
And in my heart I will always be sure
I want you close, oh
You'll always be by my side
'Til the day I die, oh

Anthem Lights is a contemporary pop group from Nashville, TN. The band started as a solo project for singer Chad Graham under the name “Yellow Cavalier” around 2007. Graham and his friend Alan Powell began writing songs together for the project. After a series of recording sessions, the two decided that Yellow Cavalier should be a group of vocalists rather than just one.

Graham contacted his other friends Kyle Kupecky and Caleb Grimm from Liberty University to see if they’d be interested in joining the band. The two accepted and later had Powell become a vocalist as well. The group released a self-titled EP in mid 2009. It was then decided that the guys should rename themselves as “Anthem Lights”, for reasons that Kupecky states, “These songs [are] our anthem to the world saying, "Listen, we know there’s a lot of darkness in this life, but in the end, light is gonna win.” And we wanna be the light to people and just show them who the light of the world is."

Months later, the group was signed to Reunion Records, a subdivision of Provident Label Group, and released their self-titled EP under their new name in February of 2011, which three months later was taken down and made into their self-titled album.

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