White Lies - Bigger Than Us
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Love flickered in the city of lights
Like intermittent radio waves
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irregular; stopping and starting at irregular intervals
Heard in 24 songs (32M+ combined views) — most famously in "Bigger Than Us" by White Lies.
Updated July 26, 2026
Time: 0:26
Love flickered in the city of lights
Like intermittent radio waves
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Time: 2:31
Dites à la ménagère qu'on a ressuscité Cloclo
Dites aux connards d'intermittents d'allumer les projos
Appelez les Pow-Wow, on va déterrer la hache de guerre

Time: 2:31
Les Halles, Châtelet, je descends, j'arrive devant
J'ai un petit job en intermittent, sans perdre de temps
Dix heures, j'enfile mon tablier, eh, je suis mal payé, eh

Time: 1:46
I've been on a winning streak, I made Al pick all the beats
Intermittent fasting with the burpees got me looking sleek
Kissin' on my Georgia peach, I've been on the right path

Time: 1:24
Le genre de féministe qui kiffe quand ça doggine
Toujours pas intermittent c'est le pognon de la CAF
Il demande si j'en vis, j'crois qu'il envie mon taf

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You flicker like a fluorescent light
An intermittent strobe in a lonely night
As I am standing by your side

Time: 0:59
My mission given, I was birthed the same year as It Was Written
I been fast to intermittent to strengthen my intuition
But fuck, and sometimes, shit, you run out of luck

Time: 1:08
J'fais du drama, kich' est cuisante, j'déjoue la matrice omnisciente (waow)
Ber-flam, prends-toi pour une rap star, tout l'monde sait qu't'es intermittent
Ber-flam, prends-toi pour une rap star, tout l'monde sait qu't'es intermittent

Time: 1:32
Checke mon épaule, j'ai la tête de l'emploi
Intermittent, RSA gris nardo
Maillot rouge, Wijnaldum

Time: 2:10
And every haven that we fabricate
Can only be an intermittent space
We've gotten used to the simple fact

Time: 2:45
And in lightning, I can see just as well in the dark
The lightning asks if I know the way in the intermittent bright
And if I say yes, or many yeses, it cracks

Time: 0:10
Your heartbeat is, oh, so intermittent
Baby, your body's gone cold

Time: 1:18
L'amour c'est pour ceux qui ont du temps
Les bobos, cadres, intermittents
Qu'on croise dans le printemps

Time: 1:36
But maybe, someday, try
Mid-slosh through intermittent voids
Try standing long enough to toe the still beneath

Time: 2:22
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God and I, we correspond with intermittent letters
I send postcards from the road, and now and then He answers

Time: 0:27
Jsuis bamileke comme Sacha boey
Y'a rien a gratter pour les intermittents
(Mouf)

Time: 1:17
And we slipped somewhere, the ice took hold
In intermittent patches
And so we made our careful way

Time: 0:22
To let you in then turn you away
I'm intermittent
Can't speak what you want me to say

Time: 0:29
I'm the crutch, I'm the words on the back of your tongue
I'm the intermittent headaches
I'm the dirt running deep beneath your fingernails that can't be scrubbed

Time: 1:03
I live life with no intermission
I'm fasting like I'm intermittent
Most days come with some inhibition

Time: 0:27
J'suis doué, impertinent
J'suis doux et sauvage, étudiant intermittent
J'suis l'égo de la réussite, la peur de l'échec

Time: 0:43
The sweeter it gets you know I lick it away
Radio forecast intermittent storms
Tidal waves that change their forms

Time: 1:39
(So one's purpose to me, of life, is to experience)
(Is to experience, deep, closed, shallow, intermittent
And constant experiences, expression, feelings, emotions, thoughts)

Time: 1:48
Y'a la rage chez l'ancien la rage chez le jeune
Chez l'intermittent chez celui qui jeûne
Chez l'infirmière le prof le cheminot
