Imogen Heap — Candlelight Live iTunes Festival: London 2007

[Intro] "So I'm going to make it up to my mum now, by playing her favourite song. This is the one my mum always gets me to play, even though I've written like a hundred songs since. And if I'm ever like round a friend's house or if we're near a piano, which seems to be quite a lot with my mum - then she's says, erm, 'Oh, Immi, Immi, would you, would you play "Candlelight"? Would you?' so I always end up playing it. So this one I've played more than any other song on the planet... which I shouldn't be so sure about 'cause I'll probably get it all wrong now 'cause I haven't actually rehearsed this one 'cause I was like 'eh, I can do that one'. So, I think this one is about... 'cause I kind of wrote this one and then I kind of dissected it later when people have been asking me what it's about. And this one, I wrote this just before I signed to my first record company when I was 18 and I was a bit apprehensive, to say the least, about doing it 'cause I'd heard all the horror stories about record companies and I was worried they'd take away my love for music. Which they didn't, of course, but I was nervous that they would kind of ruin things 'cause it wouldn't become fun anymore. And actually it didn't become fun with them for quite a long time, actually, but um... So this is 'Candlelight'." [Verse 1] I am alone, surrounded by the colour blue Inside a poem, the only words I ever knew Washing my hands, of the many years untold For now I am banned, my future is to unfold [Chorus] Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight, no? Would you take my candlelight away from me? [Verse 2] I am blind, my eyes covered from the outside For I have lied, now all there is left for me to do is hide Take in a deep breath and I lift my head For I am a new man and I arise from my bed, yeah [Chorus] Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight, no? Would you take my candlelight away from me? [Chorus] Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight away from me? [Interlude] [Bridge] This is all there is, I can see that now I have to be careful with it, now it's been found So fragile, but powerful, this is the light Light of my destiny stay with me, through every night [Interlude] [Chorus] Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight away from me? [Chorus] Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight? Would you take my candlelight away? Away from me?