“I had a heart then
 But the queen has been overthrown”

—  Ellie Goulding

Song lyric of Bright Lights (2010), "Lights", written by Goulding, Ash Howes, and Richard Stannard

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English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1986

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