Emily Lyrics

Give yourself to the sky.

Give yourself to a pyre

Upon which you'll lie

Give yourself up to find,

Give yourself up to be released,

So you could be free



And if it comes down to it

Whatever doesn't matter now

Can tell us both somehow



But it doesn't really matter now

You're estranged and underground

Have we lost our guardian angel



Ten forty five and the wind stopped blowing

I couldn't see it but the world stopped turning

Eight years old, a bolt of lightning crashes.

Pick your fight or flight responses and

Tell me nothing's wrong when there is

Mommy I'm scared, take, take me home



Give yourself up to the sky,

A bullet, a tear, a lightning rod

Give yourself up to be free,

Let me see the sun through the trees.

Give yourself up for me,

And I will spend my nights in disbelief



And if it comes down to it

Whatever doesn't matter now

Can tell us both somehow



But it doesn't really matter now

You're estranged and underground

Have we lost our free-spirited girl



Ten forty five and the wind stopped blowing

I couldn't see it but the world stopped turning

Eight years old, a bolt of lightning crashes.

Pick your fight or flight responses and

Tell me nothing's wrong when there is

Mommy I'm scared, take, take me home



No radio to call my mother station

No radio and no communication



Well if I'm a beacon now you should've seen me before

'Cause I'm burning brighter than the sun

Well if I was a shadow before well you should see me now

'Cause I'm a black star collapsing in on itself



But it doesn't really matter now

You're estranged and underground

Have we lost our sweet Emily?



Ten forty five and the wind stopped blowing

I couldn't see it but the world stopped turning

Eight years old, a bolt of lightning crashes.

Pick your fight or flight responses and

Tell me nothing's wrong when there is

Mommy I'm scared, take, take me home



And it's a winter night and I'm thinking about you,

Thinking about you, I'm so lost without you

And in a mother's arms are emptiness scars

From a life ripped away before it could thrive.



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Ten forty five and my world stopped turning

Inside your heart a flame stopped burning

Eight years old, a bolt of lightning crashes.

Pick your fight or flight responses.

Tell me nothing's wrong when there is.

I heard you scream my name, my Emily.



But I can't sleep to dream anymore.

It's hard when I try and think of you.

I pray every night for the memory to stay alive,

But you're gone now.



And it rained from a clear blue sky at your funeral,

A rainbow cascaded across the sky;

I know you were looking down on me saying

"Mom, you've just got to try."



"You've just got to try."