Light Me Up

Album: Fire Within (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • Birdy wrote this upbeat tune with the British singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon, whose other credits include Florence + the Machine's "Shake It Out," Calvin Harris' "Sweet Nothing" and Jessie Ware's "Wildest Moments."
  • The song was released as the second single from Birdy's Fire Within album. "I'm really excited about releasing 'Light Me Up'," the singer told Digital Spy. "It has a bit of an '80s feel and it's really upbeat, it's a sound that no one's heard from me before."

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