#TBT | Pretty Lights - I Know The Truth

Take it back to the year 2010 with Pretty Lights’ hit track “I Know The Truth”!

This week’s #TBT, Pretty Lights‘ “I Know The Truth“, was the first EDM song I was ever shown back in 2010. The track has always held a special place in my heart being a combination of hip-hop and blues. Derek samples O.V. Wrights, A Fool Can’t See The Light on this track. Derek has always been an innovator of music in my opinion though unfortunately, I feel he has fallen off a bit in the last couple of years. I have high hopes for the upcoming Pretty Lights Live performances as Derek is one hell of a composer when he wants to be. His Okeechobee set, which debuted his new “light wall”, was full of the old school PL we’ve come to admire. Check our the “I Know The Truth” video filmed at 2011’s Bonnaroo below and enjoy!

Check out Pretty Lights – I Know The Truth on YouTube:

Pretty Lights – I Know The Truth – Lyrics

I’m too blind
I’m too blind…..to see the light
have mercy, on me now
have mercy, on me now
have mercy…
me on me now (x7)

NO MERCY!!!!!!!!!
I’m trying to find some kind of excuse
But deep down within my heart, I know the truth
I’m trying to find some kind of excuse
But deep down within my heart, I know the truth…
I’m too blind
I’m too blind…..to see the light
have mercy, on me now
have mercy, on me now
have mercy…
me on me now (x7)

About Pretty Lights:

Derek Vincent Smith better known as Pretty Lights, is a Colorado based producer who’s made quite a name for himself in the Festival Circuit. Pretty Lights is an OG within the EDM community, who’s even been recognized by the likes of titans of music like Rick Ruben who once said, “Pretty Lights is the face and voice of the new American electronic music scene.” Pretty Lights resume includes 4 albums between his 2006 release of Taking Up Your Precious Time to 2013’s Color Map Of The Sun; headlining or performing dozen’s of festivals from Suwannee’s Hulaween to New Orlean’s Buku Festivals; he has even headlined and beginning his own festival alongside Bassnectar called BassLights.

Most recently he has announced that he will be hosting his own mini festival/performance alongside his live band Pretty Lights Live at Washington’s, Gorge Amphitheatre. Derek also released a poster for what he is calling Island of Lights though, no one seems to know where it will take place as he has not announced that. His die-hard fans are hypothesizing that both show posters actually have a hidden message from Derek to his fans; the 7 rays of light in the poster represent 7 shows he will put on in the near future, where and when is to be determined.