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392:") when she looks out the window and sees something glowing. A purple planet can be seen from the window. She gets up and looks into her binoculars. She sees an astronaut roasting marshmallows on the planet. The astronaut appears to notice; he looks up at Earth with interest. Lights then walks over to her computer and inserts a map of Earth. After pressing a couple of buttons, she creates a spaceship and drives out of the city and into space. As Lights zooms through space towards the purple planet, a comet hits the ship and it crashes into the purple planet. As the dust clears, Lights walks toward the astronaut and grabs his hand. The two walk away together, and the video ends with a shot of the comic that Lights was reading. It details her meeting with the astronaut, and at the bottom it says "to be continued". That comes to " 261: 357:"Drive My Soul" is about the element in your life that you cannot live without and without it you feel lost and lose control. Lights said that this element could be anything you feel drives your soul and keeps you in the right path: your parents, a friend, or even something supernatural or a religious element. 360:
Lights has stated that "Drive My Soul" was actually a song where she had the title first before she even wrote the lyrics. She's said it all started when she was listening to an indie radio station, and heard a song which she thought had the lyrics "Drive My Soul" sung in a really beautiful way.
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After hearing the song, Lights, searched for the lyrics and to her surprise the lyrics "Drive My Soul" were never used in the song she heard. When she was searching for ideas to write, she went back to the title of "Drive My Soul" for her own song.
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EP. It was released as the EP's lead single on March 11, 2008, in Canada and July 24, 2008, in the United States. The song reached number 18 on the
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It starts with Lights sitting on her bed reading a comic (presumably the one she had written in "
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for digital sales of over 40,000. It was later included on her debut album,
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January 8, 2009. Archived from 749: 409:for the week of January 8, 2009. 1273:How to Sleep When You're on Fire 1003:. Retrieved September 14, 2016. 399:The video reached number one on 259: 270:needs additional citations for 1057:. Retrieved February 5, 2018. 1039:. Retrieved February 5, 2018. 1021:. Retrieved February 5, 2018. 445: 1: 1484:Songs written by Tawgs Salter 1435:The Last Thing on Your Mind 1510: 949:. YouTube. 13 August 2010. 663:Canada (Canadian Hot 100) 237:and was certified gold by 1227:Skin & Earth Acoustic 1156: 761: 718: 703: 695: 692: 689: 662: 625: 607: 589: 577: 498: 463: 455: 452: 449: 423:. 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