joseph brooks wrote the song you light up my life.
joseph brooks wrote the song you light up my life.
who wrote the song you light up my life?
joseph brooks
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"no light, no light" is a art rock song with an indie rock bridge. according to the sheet music published on the website musicnotes.com by universal music publishing group, "no light, no light" is written in the key of a minor with 132 beats per minute. welch's vocals range from the note g to e. the song begins with pulsating tribal drums as stated by kyle anderson of "entertainment weekly". according to "billboard" magazine's jillian mapes, "a dramatic opening note on the... [song] ushers in a drum crescendo, followed by a 'like a prayer' - style interlude." during the choir-led chorus, welch sings the lines, "you can't choose what stays and what fades away/ and i'd do anything to make you stay/ no light, no light/ tell me what you want me to say" over "thundering tribal" beats and harp strings that "grow louder and louder". lyrically, in the song she's expressing frustration about the state of her fragile relationship and she further tries to keep it together. ryan dombal of the website pitchfork media commented that "no light, no light" was one of the songs where welch "sets aside her usual flighty, dreamy, goth-y lyrical go-to's-- ghosts, graveyards, devils, angels, myths, drowning-- for something a bit more personal." during the musical bridge of the song, welch sings the lines "would you leave me, if i told you what i'd become. 'cause it's so easy to sing it to a crowd/ but it's so hard, my love/ to say it to you out loud", which according to mapes shows welch "on her knees, begging her lover not to go". alix buscovic of bbc online compared the song with florence and the machine's earlier song "cosmic love", while "newsday"s glenn gamboa compared "no light, no light" with kate bush's songs. sam wolfson of "the guardian" joked that the song talks about tess daly.
no light, no light