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ARCHETYPE

by Emily Afton

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Rodent This is a fabulous debut album, and hopefully there will be a follow-up. I think she's got a skyrocketing hit with "Words from your tongue". Favorite track: Words From Your Tongue.
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1.
I don’t know how I found this place I yearned and turned into the face Of which I made for all these years I didn’t know I had these fears And when your oxygen it reaches The surface, the color bleaches Turns a shade I’ve never known Was in my blood or in my bones In my bones All that I do not show And my poems they all end the same In your voice and in your name The only way for us to win Is if I peel you off my skin Piece by piece and I can’t slow down This person that I’ve learned to drown Inside me has begun to swim I watch you peel me off your skin Off your skin Where I end and you begin And things are starting to seem normal which serves as a perfect queue To start acting emotionally askew And stop knowing what to do Or how to act like a train off its track, in a way that lacks Something stable like An anchor or conscious, or being focused or happy or modest And I just Want to do right But I’m on this self-induced plight And I’m the only one that can save it It’s more of an itch that I stay trying to scratch just to play this wounded role I’ve got more songs in your name, in your name in my soul And I don’t know how I found this place I close my eyes and see your face Gunpowder from a war inside Has calmed to dust and we’re still tied I’m bare without a stone to hold me down And wind blows through my bullet holes Let me go and I’ll float or sink I loved you more than you think Love you more, This does not end here, I’ll love you more Look what’s under it all I’ll love you more More than you think, than I know This does not end here I’m sorry for all that I’ve done Underneath there’s a knot That can never be torn I’ve never stopped And I’ll love you more
2.
And there’s moments when We both get confused We can’t understand the ways in which we use Use our tongue and our minds Yeah we’re two different kinds I just seemed to have killed something when I thought I was being kind Yeah I thought I was being kind But I can’t understand ya Is every move here just in vein? If I cannot plant a Seed in your mind how will we gain? So Cut the words from your tongue (free the words) Cut the words from your tongue (free the words) Speak the truth to me love I want to see your blood Take another swig Or another hit It’s all relative What we’re seeking now may have gone But we could find something new (something new) A new ground that is true To stand on, if we understand both who we are Who we really really are But I can’t understand ya Is every move here just in vein? If I cannot plant a Seed in your mind how will we gain? So Cut the words from your tongue (free the words) Cut the words from your tongue (free the words) Speak the truth to me love I want to see your blood And oh it grows, It grows inside of us all Oh and I know I know it’s hard to fall Fall from ourselves Oh hail Mother Mary, I can’t help these things I’m falling far from grace and can’t stand that place Outside of your heart But I can’t understand ya Is every move here just in vein? If I cannot plant a Seed in your mind how will we gain? So Cut the words from your tongue (free the words) Cut the words from your tongue (free the words) Speak the truth to me love I want to see your blood I can’t under, I can’t understand ya I can’t under, I can’t understand (your heart) I can’t under, I can’t understand ya I can’t under, I can’t understand (your heart) Cut the words from your tongue Cut the words from your tongue Cut the words from your tongue Bleed for me love
3.
Someday 04:20
Someday You say We all die someday I fall Down the rabbit hole I pray That my skin feels like paper so I can remember That I will degrade, disintegrate Someday Someday I've told lies, Made my mother cry, I took the bate That was poisonous inside I hope hate Doesn't crystallize over me as I get older please Please don't forget The light I'll trace, Someday Someday Who are you to fall in love with life, who are you not to? Who are you to fall in love with life, who are you not to? Who are you to pay the price for your life? Who are you not to? Who are you to not return back to this life someday? Someday Who are you to fall in love with life, who are you not to? Who are you to fall in love with life, who are you not to? Who are you to pay the price for your life? Who are you not to? Who are you to not return back to this life someday?
4.
Who taught you to be unkind? Who showed you this trick of the mind? You turned me off like I was a light (switch) Pulled the plug on us leaving my love blind Nothing to look for What can I What can I look for When you’re Heartless How could you be, how do we be Without heart? In the darkness I could not see, you built a wall Between we And there’s no getting in Only severing the knot Could it really be? Did you finally Make the cut? I can’t stop seeing your face Underground circuit of wires has been replaced With something else and it gapes (in me) A whole inside where the thought of you used to lay Where the thought of you used to lay Now you’re Heartless How could you be, how do we be Without heart? In the darkness I could not see, you built a wall Between we And there’s no getting in Only severing the knot Could it really be? Did you finally Make the cut? Ohh all this cold And I’ve grown to know this Soulless mechanism And I know all along You were guarding your heart and I am sorry For making you become Heartless How could you be, how do we be Without heart? In the darkness I could not see, you built a wall Between we And there’s no getting in Only severing the knot Could it really be? Did you finally Make the cut? Heartless (how could I be?) In the darkness (you built a wall) And there’s no getting in Only severing the knot Could it really be? Did you finally Make the cut?
5.
Five Years 04:53
Walking home in the rain All the streetlights gone out Been a while since I felt mildly sane One of the darker nights no doubt And I don’t feel like tending to the needs Of needlessly draining interactions Just feel like tending to these Songs in my head that serve as distractions And tomorrow I’ll be 21 And join the society of the ‘Drinker’s Club’ Meet at the congregation at the bars in America Isn’t it fun? Isn’t it fun Distracting yourself And I’m walking down that same old road again Same heart, same eyes, same feet Its crazy how time just evaporates, leaving us with A mind full of memories And I keep on keeping on searching But I still don’t really know what I want And I guess its good; I’ll never be done learning And following this internal compass guiding me through this hunt And tomorrow I’ll be 23 I guess time had its way of escaping me I was born with something inside to set free Deep in the sound Look what I’ve found Deep in the sound Look what I’ve found And you warned me, you warned me You warned me, you warned me That it would slip right through my fingers And this year I am 25 Can I say it’s by grace that I’m alive? I was born from the Rose And I have grown to know my kind And I will try to leave behind Something divine
6.
I feel the sun on my face Never the wind I was born on a golden mountain And I don’t know why I was dealt this fate Never had to ask Being from this golden mountain I look at the sky and I wonder, wonder where Someone decides how we end up, how it’s fair In a past life did I bleed? In a past life did I kill? In this life will I lead? In this life will, oh will, oh will I We’re getting stoned in the backyard We’re getting stoned in America We’re getting stoned in the backyard We’re getting stoned I feel the water Drip down my skin Down into the drain, yeah it feels like an endless fountain And it doesn’t matter If you feel pain If you’re from the other side of the golden mountain I look at the sky and I wonder, wonder where Someone decides how we end up, how it’s fair In a past life did I bleed? In a past life did I kill? In this life will I lead? In this life will, oh will, oh will I We’re getting stoned in the backyard We’re getting stoned in America We’re getting stoned in the backyard We’re getting stoned There’s a war going on outside That only some of us are safe from We’ve been asleep for all our lives ‘Cause we’re protected by the system And Oh I don’t See how we can be fine This altruism is a lie No one’s protected from this system
7.
Even though this phase has many phases Even though in this one we don’t talk Even though my mind can run to bad places I’m trying to sharpen the knife, so I can make it cut (right) Even though we know this to be our love language Even though we’ve been through this before There’s so many things inside me changing I’m going down to meet the dark behind the door And I don’t want this archetype Of the sad, lost, love girl to rule me I’ve got a wild wolf in the night Running, Running through me Please don’t let me catch you, catch you, catch you I’m not ready to break Break this down And I just want to love you, love you, love you I’m not ready to lay Lay this down down I’ve played the villain and the damsel in this baby How could we ever know that there were other roles? And all this time the beast and I inside were not facing I want to look her now in her soul And I don’t want this archetype Of the sad, lost, love girl to rule me I’ve got a wild wolf in the night Running, Running through me Please don’t let me catch you, catch you, catch you I’m not ready to break Break this down And I just want to love you, love you, love you I’m not ready to lay Lay this down down Together we have grown Into the patterns that we know (Is that love?) Slowly we’re shedding the skins of our past to find This time Our hearts are unbroken and wild So run girl wild And I don’t want this archetype Of the sad, lost, love girl to rule me I’ve got a wild wolf in the night Running, Running through me And I don’t want this archetype Of the lost little girl to rule me I’ve got a wild wolf in the night She’s running, (she’s running) Running through me Please don’t let me catch you, catch you, catch you I’m not ready to break Break this down And I just want to love you, love you, love you I’m not ready to lay Lay this down down
8.
Interlude 00:53
9.
My Own One 04:19
It’s a road No it’s a path I’m walking on And I’m alone No I’m just on my own one It’s a tone That strikes out inside when I’m aligned I’ve been here before Your body knows where you’ve spent time And I dreamed In these scenes And it feels Just as real as I believe And it’s my life It’s all that I was born to do This feeling’s mine Your interpretation belongs to you And I know we’re all waiting for the oracle to come Dressed in cloaks of black with its magical thumb And I don’t know what my past life-self has said or done But I’d like to thank her for it all For it all
10.
Proverb 02:48
Tell me a proverb and I’ll tell you how I relate Lately my peripheral vision only goes straight These days I’ve spent walking but I’m not sure if I’ve got the right Kind of shoes for this kind of hike And my toes they’re all starting to web From swimming around in the puddles in your head And I’ll be a diver trying to find it deep down inside That holy thing that don’t fade with time Oh I’ll find it The open mind it calls Behind your words there’s life and I am sold Tell me your story and I’ll hold it up to the sky I want to see what gets exposed in the light And I’m trying to learn, I’m trying to learn the meaning behind This magical thing, this gripping life Oh I’ll find it The open mind it calls Behind your words there’s life and I am sold Surround yourself with that which you know to be good And things will come into your life as they should And I’m trying to find it now (To be found, to be found, to be found) And Oh I’ll find it The open heart it calls There’s so much life inside this I am sold
11.
Lost 04:40
The choices I’ve made confuse me Getting back to myself takes time And I’m lost and I don’t know what to do with me Yeah I’m lost but I know that I’ll be fine Yeah you really know you got through to me I caught something there inside And I’m gone inside of something new to me Yeah I’m gone but I know that it takes time And oh You don’t even know babe You don’t even know babe what you’ve done When you come into my life And oh You don’t even know babe You don’t even know where we could go If we just give up on the fight The choices I’ve made they confuse me I try to give in and lose every time And I’m lost inside of something new to me And I’m lost but I know that it takes time And oh You don’t even know babe You don’t even know babe what you’ve done When you come into my life And oh You don’t even know babe You don’t even know where we could go If we just give up on the fight I didn’t think I was like this But I like this (I didn’t know, I didn’t know) I didn’t think I was like this But I like this (I didn’t know, I didn’t know ya) And oh You don’t even know babe You don’t even know babe what you’ve done When you come into my life And oh You don’t even know babe You don’t even know where we could go If we just give up on the fight And oh you’ll never know babe You will never know just what you’ve done When you come into my life
12.
Can we make a whole Piece If we put we ourselves together If we go digging for gold Can we meet somewhere in the center I want to know our future I want to see the things that we can do Wish I could give in to your spark Without fusing into you ‘Cause we’re both ‘Cause we’re both ‘Cause we’re both ‘Cause we’re both We’re fractions of ourselves I don’t know how to love you whole ‘Cause I’m missing myself Think I’m missing the piece that lets me love I want to taste the sunlight I want to hear the sound that it makes In the songs that I write For you ‘Cause we’re both ‘Cause we’re both (fractions of our) ‘Cause we’re both ‘Cause we’re both (fractions of our) I start where you end Like ouroboros Divide “us” by “we” Devotion is the quotient Your love’s a bird’s eye view Of all I’ve done to cope with Being alone until you Loosened the wheel on my doom Slowed the march to my tomb My gratitude for that But who am I without you? Well, I’m still learning that I’ve got a whole lot to do And you can’t be in the room While I’m redressing my wounds Only got so many moons To try to match the tides with Follow my own light In the night time When the moon is silent And when the loon is crying I sit to hear the sooth the truth says Trying to save my mind My soul so long in the tooth I’ll start where I think I have time left ‘Cause I took a picture of myself But didn’t know the subject I mean, objectively I know it’s me But didn’t love it Second impression seen reflectively It’s my opponent And we both benefit from your support and oxytocin So I need a moment by myself to make these fractions whole I know you know it but it’s not what you were hoping for Know you believe that I’ll be better for it afterward You salt the property with she might not come back for sure

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released September 27, 2016

All songs co-produced by David Earl and Lila Rose except:

"My Own One"
Produced by David Debolt and Alexis Harte

"Words From Your Tongue"
Produced by Jeff Salesman and engineered by Alexandre Oubré
(Courtesy of OIM Records)

All songs recorded at Skyline Studios, Fantasy Studios, and the Orange Room in Oakland, and at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco, CA

Mastered by Piper Payne at Coast Recorders

Management - Victor Casillas Valle (victor@counterculturegroup.com)

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