Her debut EP Lights was released in July 2008 and achieved commercial success which enabled the release of her first full-length album, The Listening, on September 22, 2009. Her second album, Siberia, was released on October 4, 2011. Both albums have been certified gold in Canada. Lights released her third studio album, Little Machines, on September 19, 2014, which debuted on the Canadian Albums Chart at number five. Her fourth album, Skin&Earth, which featured "Giants", was released in September 2017, accompanied by a graphic novel of the same name. Her albums won the Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
Lights has collaborated with artists including Bring Me the Horizon, Silverstein, Deadmau5, Felix Cartal, i_o, Owl City and Sleepy Tom. Lights signed with Fueled by Ramen in 2019 and released Skin&Earth Acoustic, which included three new songs.
Toes
Lights Lyrics
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I'm the one that doesn't know anything
Like a magpie and a ring,
I'm always going to be looking right to you
Oh, you capture my attention
Carefully listening,
Don't wanna miss a thing,
Got me on my toes
If I were to hide out on the sea,
You'd be whispering from the westerlies
In any book I'll ever read,
You'd be the line that sticks out to me,
Out to me
Oh, you capture my attention
Carefully listening,
Don't wanna miss a thing,
Keeping my eyes on you
Oh, you capture my attention
I'm anticipating,
I'm watching, I'm waiting
For you to make your move
Got me on my toes
Got me on my toes
Got me on my toes
Got me on my toes
Got me on my toes
Oh, you capture my attention
Carefully listening,
Don't wanna miss a thing,
Keeping my eyes on you
Oh, you capture my attention
I'm anticipating,
I'm watching, I'm waiting
For you to make your move
Got me on my toes
Got me on my toes
Got me on my toes
The lyrics of Lights's song "Toes" are a beautiful depiction of a person falling in love and being captivated by their significant other. The metaphorical comparison of the singer being a "cliffhanger ending" and their love interest being the one who knows everything creates an image of the singer being unable to exist without their partner. They are like a magpie and a ring, always looking towards their love interest. This shows the singer's dependence on their love interest, and how they have captured their attention completely.
The lyrics also show the intensity of the singer's love, as they refuse to miss a single thing and carefully listen to everything their love interest says. The lines "keeping my eyes on you" and "got me on my toes" create a sense of anticipation and excitement, as the singer is always eagerly waiting for their partner's next move. This sense of constant vigilance can also be interpreted as a reflection of the singer's fear of losing the attention of their love interest.
The second verse of the song talks about the singer imagining themselves on the sea, far away from everything, but still feeling their partner's presence. This further emphasizes how much the singer is in love with their partner, and how they can't escape their thoughts even if they were far away. The line "You'd be the line that sticks out to me" shows how even in something as mundane as reading a book, the singer's love interest will always find a way to be on their mind.
Overall, the lyrics of "Toes" are a beautiful depiction of the intensity of love, the fear of losing it, and the sense of complete surrender that comes with being in love.
Line by Line Meaning
If you are a cliffhanger ending
If you are an uncertain future or outcome
I'm the one that doesn't know anything
I'm the one who is clueless about the situation
Like a magpie and a ring,
Like a bird attracted to something shiny
I'm always going to be looking right to you
I will always be drawn to you
Oh, you capture my attention
You have my undivided attention
Carefully listening,
Listening attentively
Don't wanna miss a thing,
I don't want to miss anything about you
Keeping my eyes on you
Focusing all my attention on you
If I were to hide out on the sea,
If I were to isolate myself from everything
You'd be whispering from the westerlies
You would be calling out to me from a distance
In any book I'll ever read,
In every piece of information I come across
You'd be the line that sticks out to me,
You would be the one that stands out to me
Oh, you capture my attention
You have my undivided attention
I'm anticipating,
I'm eagerly waiting and hoping for something to happen
I'm watching, I'm waiting
I am observing and waiting for the right moment
For you to make your move
For you to take action or initiate something
Got me on my toes
You have made me alert and ready for whatever may come
Got me on my toes
You have made me alert and ready for whatever may come
Got me on my toes
You have made me alert and ready for whatever may come
Oh, you capture my attention
You have my undivided attention
I'm anticipating,
I'm eagerly waiting and hoping for something to happen
I'm watching, I'm waiting
I am observing and waiting for the right moment
For you to make your move
For you to take action or initiate something
Got me on my toes
You have made me alert and ready for whatever may come
Got me on my toes
You have made me alert and ready for whatever may come
Got me on my toes
You have made me alert and ready for whatever may come
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: THOMAS SALTER, VALERIE POXLEITNER
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@liamcharles643
Ugh, this brings me back to the chilly autumn nights in 2011, back home in Canada. I would walk home from volleyball practice, listening to this on my iPod touch. Then winter rolled around and snow blanketed the ground- and I would just walk around town listening to the Siberia album.
I was only 16 at the time, but felt so connected to this music. Omg I miss those days so much
@philpower_
Man oh man, minus the volleyball part, this had me wondering who was spying on me back then and passing off my life and times as their own! 😂 Minus the volleyball part, I can say 100% same. What a time and what a sound to go with it.
@CYBERFROG2077
I share the feeling. I dont have any words for it. Me and my friends journeying around in the cold, from place to place just to move around and feel alive. It was so good. We had no idea how good it really was, we really really didnt. We werent supposed to, because now those memories keep us going
@sabreenasnow119
I loved reading this ah
@roralize1358
I was 9 in the winter of 2011. Younger, but those similar feelings of chilling to music with my CD player are memories that I will always hold close. I miss the early 2010s, and this song screams that time period.
@BraveClam
Very similar here - I was 18 just out of high school, moved halfway across the states to work in North Dakota oil fields and found this on a radio station out there in 2011 haha
Very cold for months on end
@Luk1516
I would like to take a second and thank Lights for her music... Being an infantryman and being in one of the most hostile places in Afghanistan has taken it's tole and getting the chance listening to her music during the day, or whenever i might have a few minutes off, is the highlight of my day... thank you Lights your music has helped me thru this deployment and some of the messed up things that have happened out here.. once again thank you!
@TimmyTurnerArmwrestling
Sir I hope you're doing good
@NathanielRossi
God bless you brother
@TheRegimeWithYenny
That is amazing. The military has a base near where she is from, as I recall.