"Everybody Breaks a Glass" is a song by Canadian recording artist Lights. It was released on July 19, 2011 as a promotional single from her second studio album Siberia (2011). It features music by electronica band Holy Fuck and guest vocals from Canadian rapper Shad.
The song features music from the Electronica band, Holy Fuck and vocals from Shad. Upon its release, Lights stated her nervousness over the new song.
On July 22, a lyric video was released by Lights. The video was envisioned and created solely by Lights.
The song is a poppy, keyboard-driven new wave anthem with a touch of dubstep.
The song has debuted at #15 on the iTunes Canadian Songs chart. For the issue date of August 6, 2011, the song debuted in the 79th position of the Canadian Hot 100.
It's not a solid, not a soft thing
to pull the wool up like a smoke screen
Nobody does it like a prophet
It's gone before you know you lost it
There are reasons you keep you hands tied
There's certain thing you shouldn't have tried
So if you gotta tell me something,
You better go from the beginning
We all forget to sleep,and crash at someone's feet
Everybody skips a beat
We let the chances past, the few we held so fast
Everybody breaks a glass
And here I'm standing in the middle,
not just a little but a hill full
wondering how I got a head cold
wishing i didn't know what I know
It's never been about the money
We"re worthy or we are not worthy
however much you got on your plate
you're as good as you reciprocate
we all pretend to keep our tongue out of our cheek
everyone's the fool they seek
we all go off the track and feel for our way back
everybody breaks a glass x2
Shook, scared to look at peers when they peer back
it's weird how we fear that
it's weird how we wear masks
it appears we fear our own tears more than tear gas
my teams struggling in the years past
looking to draft beer to bring cheers back
but when the drinking games's finished, no guiness, just a clear glass
seeing our real image being mirrored back
the places that we go to cope
it's not strange when we are older folks
it don't change,trying to hang, we don't know the ropes
when we fall, we got more than our shoulders broke
it's no game
it's why we overdose on cocaine
get our brains comatose,there's no blame
if you've ever know shame, know pain
known days when it really don't feel okay, ah
Somewhere perfection lies
but not for you and I
everybody trips sometime
when cities fall like shacks, walls eventually crack