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Lumières was a track that evolved so many times during the writing process. When we finished the first EP, we hit a massive writing block and took a different approach to writing. To get us out of our funk, we used an existing song we liked as a template and dropped it into Logic to initially structure our song. That song was Oil and Water by Lights. Originally, we took a totally different direction to our previous music and had some more poppy/hip-hop style drums and lots of synths for the majority of the song. We almost scrapped this track thinking that it sounded too different from the rest of our material, but after sifting through old material, we couldn't let this one go. So instead, we took a new Midwest-emo style riff we’d written for a different idea and threw it onto the chorus and we knew that was it. Funny enough, the lyrics ended up having the same contextual content as the original song we were ripping off. The song is about breaking up and getting back together over and over again. You separate and know it's for the best, but you keep coming back to that familiar place of lust and loneliness. And in that moment, you reconnect and it's bliss, until it ends again.

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I'm seeing ghosts every night and I can't put up a fight
Can someone tell me what I'm missing
Turns all of the lights low
Say all the right words
Like I've been here before

I don't wanna leave alone
I don't wanna leave alone
I don't know what to say
Turning blue into grey
It's obvious
We don't have to believe
We break away

Spit me out and I am whole again
It was never unintended
The only car on the street
Fucked in the back on repeat
Just like we always pretended
I don't want to know
Where tomorrow goes
Like I've been here before

I don't wanna leave alone
I don't know what to say
Turning blue into grey
It's obvious
We don't have to believe
We break away

I don't know what to say
Turning blue into grey
It's obvious
We don't have to believe
We break away

I don't want to know
Where tomorrow goes

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from w a v e l e n g t h s, released November 1, 2022
Music & Lyrics by Zach Sebastian and Steven Ostroske
Produced and Engineered by Zach Sebastian and Steven Ostroske at Third Eye Studios.

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