Drag Me Down

    Artist: One Direction

    I’ve got fire for a heart

    I’m not scared of the dark

    You’ve never seen it look so easy

    I’ve got a river for a soul

    And baby you’re a boat

    Baby you’re my only reason

    If I didn’t have you there would be nothing left

    The shell of a man that could never be his best

    If I didn’t have I’d never see the sun

    You taught me how to be someone

    Yeah-eah

    All my life you stood by me

    When no one else was ever behind me

    All these lights, they can’t blind me

    With your love nobody can drag me down

    All my life you stood by me

    When no one else was ever behind me

    All these lights, they can’t blind me

    With your love nobody can drag me down

    Nobody nobody

    Nobody can drag me down

    Nobody nobody

    Nobody can drag me down

    I’ve got fire for a heart

    I’m not scared of the dark

    You’ve never seen it look so easy

    I’ve got a river for a soul

    And baby you’re a boat

    Baby you’re my only reason

    If I didn’t have you there would be nothing left

    The shell of a man that could never be his best

    If I didn’t have I’d never see the sun

    You taught me how to be someone

    Yeah-eah

    ...

    Background

    One Direction’s new single “Drag Me Down” offers the mature sound that the group members have been boasting about in the lead-up to their fifth studio album. If 2014’s “Four” found the boys still dabbling in mid-70’s arena-rock, this quick, unfussy track is a graduation to the shimmering pop-rock melodies of the Police and Fleetwood Mac. The song also teeters upon an age-old theme for pop groups: fan appreciation. On its first single without recently departed member Zayn Malik, One Direction romantically alludes to the diehard Directioners and their place in the group’s phenomenal run of success. It’s basically the Backstreet Boys’ “Larger Than Life” with a slightly less bombastic guitar riff.