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Run With It
02:17
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There are some things that I can't explain. Like falling, again and again. As if this fall could break me; as if your love could lift me. In the dark, all I see is the light. In the night, all I fear is my mind. Should I just run through the trees and the bushes and hide out? Should I just crawl through the caverns and caves until I crawl out? Should I just walk over hills and through mountains and walk out? If all that we have is the past, then I'm fine with that. If all that we have is the past, then I'll run with it. I'll run through, I'll run through the past to see you. I'll run through, I'll run through the past. I'll run through, I'll run through the past if I need you. I'll run through, I'll run through the past. Never saw me at all, never saw me at all. Should I just run through the trees and the bushes and hide out? Should I just crawl through the caverns and caves until I crawl out? Should I just stand in this doorway and just watch you walk out? If all that we have is the past, then I'll find you there.
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The Grass That Grows
02:58
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I can't find your name at all. I tried so hard, I'd wait for the call. When we would get scared, you wouldn't make us eat anything. So if you get scared, I won't make you eat anything. It's good you only had one child. You couldn't even spend the time. It's good you only had one child. You couldn't even see how wild. The grass that grows across the street, it threatens to get bigger than me. The grass that grows across the street, it cuts my legs, it cuts my feet. I put it in between my palms, I try the call, I try the song. But I can't ever make a noise, I can't ever make a noise. What I hope, I hope. When I hope, I hope.
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Slow The Moon
03:00
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Slow the moon, because I'm coming to lay you in the garden. Slow the moon, because I'm coming to finish what I started. All my lifetime I'm always running, headfirst towards what's uncertain. But this is not just a warning that I won't be there in the morning. Slow me down because I'm coming to lay this where I found it. Hold me down, because I'm coming to make you feel all you've forgotten. And if the earth won't shake, then shake it for her. And if the earth won't quake then break it for her. And if the earth won't shake then shake it for her, shake it for her. If the earth won't quake then break it for her, break it for her. I had a love and I buried her. I had a love.
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Wild Dogs
02:49
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Do you believe that wild dogs used to come for me? Do you believe that wild dogs used to cloud my dreams. Oh, I believe in wild things. I believe in wild things. Now you're the thing that I'm afraid of, oh you're the thing that I'm afraid of. All these dogs have got me dreaming. I feel best when I'm down and screaming. Pain, yes, it hurts less with those teeth digging into my flesh. Pain, yeah, it hurts less with that beast weighing down on my chest. Now I believe that wild dogs, they can comfort me. Now I believe that wild dogs, they can comfort me. But I believe in wild things. I believe in wild things.
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Gone Before
02:13
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It's gone before you know. It's gone before you know. It's all around me, it's all around. Go on, take out the knife. Go on take out the knife. It's gone before you know. It's gone before you know. You felt like a ghost. You fucked like a ghost. It's all that you know. It's all that you know. Now I'm left to explain all these walls away.
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Little Thing
01:07
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Oh, look and see, the fortune in me. Rolling out the dice, rolling out of me. Come on little thing you gotta break the skin off. Come on little thing you gotta clean the mess, I made it all for you. Because I made it all for you. What if I make it up to you? What if I make it up to you.
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Gold For Eyes
02:54
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I'm going to do this wrong. I'm going to lead you along, to drink at the mouth of the drought. And I'm gonna pay the price, I'm gonna pay the price. I'm going to help myself. I won't wait for nobody else, to lead me to the well. But I'm gonna pay the price, I'm gonna pay the price. If luxury's what you want, come on I'm it. Come on and drag me out of the pit. If luxury's what you want, come on I'm it. Come on and drag me out of the pit. I've got gold for eyes, I've got gold that rolls, rolls when I cry. I've got gold, rolls rolls rolls. Am I the face, or were you mistaken?
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The Cliff
02:20
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Standing on top of a cliff and I am looking off. How many times will I stand here before I jump off. How many ways can I think of to screw this up. How many ways can I think of to just dissolve. And I'll wait for it to change, I'll wait for it. And I'll breathe through the fire. Stand in your desire. Counting, well count much higher. And I'll breathe through the fire. I'll wait for it to change, I'll wait for it. I'll wait for it to change, I'll wait for it. I'll wait for a shift.
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Your Body
01:50
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All that I've got are these old things she left me. Trying to get a hold on things, trying to get a hold on me. All that I've got are these old things she left me. Trying to keep a hold on things, trying to keep a hold on me. All that I want is something to lean on. All that I want is some words to go on. All that I want is something to lean on. All that I want is a little skin to hold on. All that I want is your body. All that I've got are these old things she left me, trying to keep a hold on things. I've got to get a hold on things.
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25 Seconds
02:30
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You've got nothing left. You've got nothing on. You've got 25 seconds to figure out what you did wrong. Well I won't be so easily left behind. I won't be so easily left this time. You've got nothing left. You've done nothing wrong. Sure we'll find a way to make a change---sure, we'll find a way to make a change. But admit, admit, admit we tried. I never meant to make mistakes. But I've become this awful thing who looks and breathes and acts like me. If you knew what I was thinking, would you just let go of me? Admit, admit, admit that we tried. I never meant to make the same mistakes. I need to believe that I could be one of the things that keeps you happy. What I should do is just come back to you, and tell you I'm sorry for what I put you through. Tell you I'm sorry about all of those thoughts I had. Because it's about all those thoughts I had, said it's about all those thoughts I had.
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Over
02:05
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I wish I could forget easily. I wish I could forget everything. I wish you wouldn't give up on me. I wish you could just come back to me. But I was there when you didn't want anything. I was there when you couldn't give anything. I was there and I swam so hard I couldn't breathe. I was there and I tried to wash this off of me. I was there when the sky was shifting. I was there when the air changed temperature. I was there when the clouds were lifting. I was there when the sky changed over. Now I know, now I know, I know for sure, for sure.
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Happiness
02:49
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Happiness is a step on the way to find me. When I can I'll let you walk beside me. But I'm the one who's breathing out with every breath in. It's getting close, it's getting close to me. It's getting close, it's getting close to me. Happiness is a hit that is deep inside me. With every hit I feel it getting deeper. But I'm the one who reaches out with every reach in. I'm the one who's reaching out with every reach in. It's getting close, it's getting close to me. It's getting close, it's getting close to me. I hear you now. Up the stairs. I hear you now, down the hall. But I'm still scared, in the end.
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Emma McKenna Toronto, Ontario
Singer and songwriter active in Toronto, Ontario, between 2007-2013.
Member of Galaxy from 2003-2007, in Toronto, Ontario.
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