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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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I’m back in San Francisco
But you’re not here
The mission is missing you baby
And its not clear
What I’m supposed to do
So many people but none of them you
I can’t pretend to like these fools
And I usually wear my heart on my sleeve
Now I got just a chip on my shoulder
How much this city’s changed makes me
Feel so much older
I got no business here
Without you dear I
I can’t find nothing sacred
And they’ve taken my
My baby
Driving past our old house and
Out on the clothes line
I see someone else’s blouses blowing
But none of them are mine
What am I supposed to do
I only moved to this city for you
It’s got me feeling like a fool
I usually wear my heart on my sleeve
Now I got just a chip on my shoulder
How much this city’s changed makes me
Feel so much older
I got no business here
Without you dear I
I can’t find nothing sacred
And they’ve taken my
My baby
My baby
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I think I know what you wanted
Or at least what you were trying for
Were you trying for life
Or were you just trying to feel
You say the room inside is haunted
A place I wish I could heal
When your lights they fall down
Tell me what you’re dreaming
Before your demons try and steal
Before your lights they fall down
When your lights they fall down
When the songs in me
When they’re gone and there’s no sound
And there’s nothing shining on me and
No one is around
I got love in me
But I can’t find it right now
Will you still see me, still see me
When the lights, the lights are falling
Oh when your lights fall down
Oh when your lights fall down
I saw your heart out on the table
I read your writing on the walls
I’ve seen the script so many times
“You don’t anyone at all”
Baby is loving me so painful
I guess loving anyone is war
When our minds are all we have to view the shadows on the wall
If the lights inside us dim I promise not to let us fall
When the songs in me
When they’re gone and there’s no sound
And there’s nothing shining on me and
No one is around
I got love in me
But I can’t find it right now
Will you still see me, still see me
When the lights, the lights are falling
Oh when your lights fall down
Oh when your lights fall down
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I don’t know what to do now
Feeling close to you hurts
I don’t know what to do now
Feeling far from you’s worse
And I can’t even tell now
Where all this’s coming from
Filling up inside me like a timebomb
Feeling like I got to run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run
Running towards you I, towards you I
Is where I want to go
And I can’t even say it
‘Cause its too emotional
I hate to paint the picture
Revealing me to be a mess
Feeling like chaos and hunger
The bomb is ticking yes, yes, yes
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
Running and hiding but I cannot hide from you
You know that I’m trying but I can’t deny that we’re losing
You better run and hide
Go and save yourself from me
I thought that love was kind but it’s such a cruel machine
Cruel machine
Cruel machine
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Who would have thought
Who could have imagined
It would all turn out this way
He came along
They had their hearts out
Out on their sleeves to be taken
And I watched as his words
His words took hold at dawn like a plague in the night
And I watched as he turned
Turned their fears into hate
Now I see fire in their eyes
So don’t call this a bad dream now
Because while you are sleeping they take everything away
Don’t tell me not to scream now
In my scream they heard my life and couldn’t look away
Who would have thought
Who could have imagined that we could stoop so low
And now the curtain’s been drawn
The veil has been lifted, now the truth we all know
That this isn’t a dream now
Because while we were sleeping they took everything away
Don’t tell me not to scream now
In my scream they heard my life and couldn’t look away
They couldn’t look away
They couldn’t look away
Ooh your voice is power, your voice is power
Ooh your voice is power, your voice is power
Ooh your voice is power, your voice is power
Ooh your voice is power, your voice is power
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If I can be honest
I’m using your daydream as an escape
And if feels so nice to get away
In the thought of you
And you’ve got a boyfriend
And he seems lovely and really I have no complaints
About your choices, except it ain’t
Me who is with you
And I don’t want to be lonely
I just want to be Lonestar
Drinking in an old bar with you
Sinking with you
And I don’t want to be chosen
I just want to be the only
Thing in your mind that is true
But I’m not even a daydream that occurs to you
Occurs to you
You, you
You, you
You, you
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RECONSIDERATION is a stripped back reimagining of Emily Afton's 2020 release, Consideration. It was recorded in bedrooms and studios across California throughout quarantine.
