"My Lighthouse" is the first single by British band

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, released in 1983 and taken from the band's debut album '' It''. The song is a gentle acoustic

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. It was performed live as part of Pulp's 2012 appearance at the

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for the

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Track listing

All songs written and composed by

Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp (band), Pulp, he became a reluctant figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Cocker h ...

and

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. #"My Lighthouse" (7" Mix) – 3:28 #"Looking for Life" – 5:26

References

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