Put Your Lights On

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"Put Your Lights On"
Put Your Lights On Santana cover.jpg
Single by Santana featuring Everlast
from the album Supernatural
B-side
WrittenFebruary 1998
ReleasedAugust 24, 1999 (1999-08-24) [1]
Length
  • 4:45 (album version)
  • 4:05 (radio edit)
Label Arista
Songwriter(s) Erik Schrody
Producer(s)
Santana singles chronology
"Smooth"
(1999)		"Put Your Lights On"
(1999)		"Maria Maria"
(1999)
Everlast singles chronology
"So Long"
(1999)		"Put Your Lights On"
(1999)		"Black Jesus"
(2000)

"Put Your Lights On" is a song by American rock band Santana and American musician Everlast from Santana's 18th studio album, Supernatural (1999). Serviced to US rock radio in August 1999, the song peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Put Your Lights On" won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards. [2]

Contents

Background

Everlast wrote the song while recovering from a major heart attack that he had suffered in February 1998 (directly after he completed recording his second solo album, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues ). He has referred to it as "one of the most personal songs I ever wrote", stating that the song was "kind of all about hope, but it's coming from a really dark place you know, so... and really questioning a lot of your beliefs, and affirming, you know, stuff in your soul." [3] Everlast converted to Islam in 1996, and the end of the song contains the words "La ilaha illa Allah", ("There is no God but God" in Arabic), the first part of the Shahada, the Islamic profession of faith.

Santana called Everlast in 1998, asking him if he could contribute a song for Supernatural, and Everlast suggested "Put Your Lights On". According to Everlast, Santana loved the song, and "from then on everything went very fast." Everlast has stated that he was unsure whether to include the Arabic-language portion in the recorded song, because "I did not want to sell Allah's words", but that Santana insisted that they be included. [4]

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the German maxi-CD single liner notes and the Supernatural album booklet. [8] [9]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)LabelRef.
United StatesAugust 24, 1999 Arista [1]
May 23, 2000 Contemporary hit radio [30]
SwedenOctober 30, 2000CD [31]
United KingdomNovember 6, 2000 [32]
GermanyNovember 27, 2000 [15]

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