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In the Summertime
02:36
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I’m gonna love you in the summertime
February’s fine, but we are stuck inside
We’ll lay on a blanket on the hill in the morning light
I’m gonna love you in the summertime
You’ll bring your charcoal pencils and draw the land
I’ll read Thoreau and kiss your blackened hand
Wrapped in whispers waiting as the sun slips out of sight
Yes, I’m gonna love you in the summertime
We’ve had times this winter that I won’t forget
But I can’t wait for the ones that haven’t happened yet
I’m gonna love you in the summertime
We’ll spend all day and night just being outside
The sun makes it feel good just to be alive
I’m gonna love you in the summertime
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I’ve been shot and it didn’t make a sound
As I fall back I see my heart there on the ground
It was too much too fast and we’d gone to far to fix now
And we tried to go back but just couldn’t figure out how
We had it coming
It got too hard to ignore
We both saw it coming
Just couldn’t make it any more
But you’re still the one I’m waiting for
When I get home you’re not there any more
And you’re still the one I dream about
But now I’ll learn how to do without
Wrapped up so tight, the tension was too much
Oh but there will be times when all I think about’s your touch
I won’t avert my eyes if I see you in the streetlight
But am I wise enough to keep my crying inside
We had it coming
It got too hard to ignore
We both saw it coming
Just couldn’t make it any more
But you’re still the one I’m waiting for
When I get home you’re not there any more
And you’re still the one I dream about
But now I’ll learn how to do without
I didn’t sleep
I couldn’t think
Of anything but you and me and how we’ll never be
But possibly
We could try and see
Til then I’ll keep this all buried underneath
And you’re still the one I’m waiting for
When I get home you’re not there any more
And you’re still the one I dream about
But now I’ll learn how to do without
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Proof
04:21
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Proof
Kiss you in the morning when I wake
Watch a smile as it’s forming on your face
Open the window, breathe in the morning air
Open my eyes, I’m still amazed you are there
Feels like proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be redeemed
Proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be set free
Sliver of sun slips below the great white sea
Cloud shapes changing wildly at such speed
Shimmer of light gleams, shines to the Hollywood hills
Finding this silence amongst such a mess gives me chills
Feels like proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be redeemed
Proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be set free
Hiding, rewriting truth
Climbing, calling - you
Drawing dreams though the senses to the heart
Search for a method that quenches in the dark
A dive into untouched waters; a common thread
Like having a talk with martyrs awake from the dead
Feels like proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be redeemed
Proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be set free
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Brandy in the Summertime
03:35
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Brandy in the summertime
Listenin to Georgia
We’ve got the good stuff
Waltz on the rooftop
Keeping the neighbors up
Spin til we all spill
Yes soon we all will
First try’s a good sign
Top secret night life
I think I’ve found a spot to stop and sit and get my fix of brandy in the summertime
Swimmin in a heat wave
Sparklers in the moonlight
Just like independence day
Bright stars and red stripe
No sleep til sun rise
No need to step inside
Sleepyheads with big smiles
Rediscoverin our design
I think I’ve found a spot to stop and sit and get my fix of brandy in the summertime
Silhouettes upon the skyline
Little light from a half moon
Glass bottles like wind chimes
Echo down the avenue
Old city with new friends
Pour me up a little bit
Sippin liquor like it’s fine wine
Like cowboys with their fine wine
I think I’ve found a spot to stop and sit and get my fix of brandy in the summertime
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Not a Fool
04:03
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Not a Fool
Time swept our love out with the rain
And my heart slipped away
To the darkest of caves
And didn’t come back for days
Now I sleep alone in our old bed
And I stage out my thoughts
And the unlikely plots
The things that remain unsaid
But I was not a fool
For believing in you
Not a fool
Just in over my head
We said that we would be good friends
But your shoulder turned cold
And your arms just let go
And found someone else instead
But I was not a fool
For believing in you
Not a fool
Just in over my head
When I find the right one to love me
Don’t call me saying that you’re feeling lonely
Cause I’ve been lonely
And I don’t need you
To waltz on in and expect to win cause you don’t have a clue
Now I watch the snow
And feel the change
Now that wintertime’s here
My mind starts to clear
I feel like myself again
No I’m nobody’s fool
Maybe find somebody new
Not a fool, but a lover instead
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To Stay Alive in the World
These whitewashed walls of my apartment might
Destroy the instincts in me to survive
Gotta get out & see the stars or city lights
To feel the power and presence of the night
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world that might explode
We’ve got coal black smokestacks filling up our lungs
To start the day it takes machines to turn us on
In the event that our inventions fill us up
Let’s not forget we’re still revolving ‘round the sun
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world that might explode
Any given time
We’ll find ourselves flying into the fire
Dead at the drop of a dime
Still we find we must own all that is new to us
The vast and the mysterious
More scared than we are curious
Too fast and too furious
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world that might explode
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7. |
Another Faded Love
04:00
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Another Faded Love
This time last year I was still falling for your touch
This time last year I was so green
This time last year I just loved you way too much
But I won’t make the same mistake again
Oh, I felt safe inside your touch
There goes another faded love
This time last year I was dreaming upside down
With my head on the ground and my heels to the sky
But time took over and our whole world turned around
I spent a year asking the reasons why
Oh, I felt safe inside your touch
There goes another faded love
This time last year I held my heart out in my hands
Bare and bleeding awake and dreaming through the day
But now in the night when I’m alone I am alright
And time has shown me I can always feel this way
Oh, I felt safe inside your touch
There goes another faded love
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Lazy
02:20
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Lazy
Wake up in the noonday sun
Watch the time drift away
When they ask me what I’ve done
I’ve really got nothing to say
I’ve really got nothing to say
I’ve really got nothing to say
Just want to be lazy
Lay and watch the flowers grow
Just one of those days here
When I’ve got no where to go
I remember the times
Spending all day in the sunshine
No use to worry our minds with anything at all
Now we’re making our way down the line
Working days and working nights
But in this moment I’m feeling fine
Cause I’m following the call
Just want to be lazy
Lay and watch the flowers grow
Just one of those days here
When I’ve got no where to go
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When Things Don’t Quite Go As Planned
Like hanging on a rope with blistered hands
Trying to float in sinking sand
Money will screw you again and again
When things don’t quite go as planned
Like wanting to sing with your mouth wired shut
You’re down on the ground and you can’t get up
So here you are – you thought you were so tough
But here’s the universe calling your bluff
I never thought things would turn out this way
Thought the world might forget all the mistakes I’ve made
Thought I’d found a way to fool the game
But now at night I lie awake to find I’ve learned too late
Like wanting to know someone but never leaving your head
Wanting to know the world but never leaving your bed
Standing at the door of heaven, paralyzed with dread
Cause things haven’t quite gone as planned
No things don’t always go as planned
I never thought things would turn out this way
Thought the world might forget all the mistakes I’ve made
Thought I’d found a way to fool the game
But now at night I lie awake to find I’ve learned too late
Everybody sins
But finding good within is critical
Even within yourself
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10. |
Memories in Rhyme
03:12
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Memories in Rhyme
I sometimes forget the words to a song I’ve heard since I was three feet tall
A song I’ve sung fourteen or fifteen hundred million times that’s all
A chemical process re-ordering objects
And replacing the spaces in my brain with street names
Until that moment when it starts to play
And the words fall around me like a symphony of memories in rhyme
And all the lines bring back the times of gazing wide-eyed at the sky
Nowadays I take the subway
I left my car down south where it broke down
It’s more efficient this way
I’m not too good of a driver anyhow
The only thing that I miss
Is that feeling of bliss
With the windows down and songs coming on the radio we’re all shouting, singing along
And the words fall around me like a symphony of memories in rhyme
And all the lines bring back the times of gazing wide-eyed at the sky
Nothing like the feeling of familiar
Funny how nostalgia can fulfill you
They say old love never dies
And when I close my eyes
And let my ears inform my mind I know they’re right
And the words fall around me like a symphony of memories in rhyme
And all the lines bring back the times of gazing wide-eyed at the sky
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It’s just more of the same changes
Headphones can only take me so far away
This is the point where I reassess my arrangements
It’s time to revert to what needs to be saved
Cause I’ve spent too long with my shoes on
Let myself start to play it safe
And my reactions became the factions of a misdirected race
Speaking of race, I’m compelled to run
Off the charts of what’s expected
Once again, I will follow the sun
Thinking hybrid; redirected
To finding melodies in the white noise
Secret passageways and doors
Trace the trails of forgotten flying creatures
I will never, never again ignore
Speaking of creatures, I’m compelled to fly
Off the charts of what’s expected
Once again, I will channel the sky
Thinking hybrid; redirected
A dive into the rain is an awakening; a sudden gust of wind
So as the storm brings forth the green progression
I too, will grow again
I am aware, awake, and able
I am digging in living land
Balanced, yet affected
Perpetual I climb
Above all, I am connected
Thinking hybrid; redirected
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12. |
Tightrope Walk
01:30
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Tightrope Walk
Tightrope walk
Tiptoe so delicately
Think and talk
All simultaneously
Got to say what you mean in the most polite of ways
Balance beam
You’ve got charisma and you’re so p.c.
Ought to be on television
Colgate whites probably glow when you turn out the lights
But how many pins can you juggle ‘fore they all come crashing down?
That mind must get awfully muddled with so many voices spinning round
Tightrope walk
Tiptoe so delicately
Think and talk
All simultaneously
Got to say what you mean in the most polite of ways
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Emily Elbert Los Angeles, California
reveling, remembering :: music as nature
✨ info, tunes, and tour dates :: emilyelbert.com
(photos by Jayden Becker)
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