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Mid​-​March Meltdown

by Ember Swift

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1.
Be My Home 04:51
BE MY HOME say what you want to say without looking away, what you need to say to me just say what you really feel it is all allowed i promise you i will stay if you want me to without running away if you need me to stay with you just do what you got to do it is all allowed i promise you tell me to go and I will go, tell me to go and I will leave tell me to go and I will go, tell me to go and I will leave tell me to stay and I will stay, tell me to stay and I will be here tell me to stay and I will stay, tell me to stay and I will be with you i wanna be with you cuz you know, you know, you know I wanna be with you… play what you want to play, you’re not getting away with those games from your early days just do what you really feel it is all allowed then meet me where it’s real tell me to go and I will go… cuz you know, you know, you know I wanna be with you… we don’t need no place that isn’t home we don’t need no place that isn’t home be my home, be my home cuz you know, you know, you know I wanna be with you… you could be my home…
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Ambiguity 03:41
AMBIGUITY ambiguity, you’re no good you don’t know what you need but you could ambiguity, you’re no good oh, oh, oh, oh ambiguity, you’re no good you made a fool of me like they said you would ambiguity, you’re no good and you are screwin’ me, c’mon baby make up your mind i wanna kick you out … cuz when you know your heart, there is no room for doubt cuz when you know your heart, it all works out ambiguity is gone ambiguity, yes or no? are you stayin’ or do you wanna go? ambiguity, high or low? oh, oh, oh, oh ambiguity, fast or slow? you don’t know what you need, you should know ambiguity, oh no you are screwin’ me, c’mon baby make up your mind i wanna kick you out … cuz when you know your heart… i wanna kick you out ambiguity is gone
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Broken Thing 04:32
BROKEN THING can you fix a broken thing? with tape and nails and glue and string? can you fix a broken thing? well i’ve been trying for so long but some things just won’t fly can you fix a broken thing? to make it fly it needs a wing can you fix a broken thing? well you’ve been burrowed underground so long you’ve forgotten the sky well I want to try cuz I love because and not despite but it’s a lie if I say it’s alright why won’t you stand up for this love and fight? can you fix a broken thing? can you make a closed heart sing? can you fix a broken thing? well I want to try cuz I love because and not despite but it’s a lie if I say it’s alright why won’t you stand up for this love and fight? where did you go? did you crawl back down below? you left me here on my own, building a wing for our love but one wing’s not enough so can we fix this broken thing? can we fix this broken thing?
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Skin on Skin 04:22
SKIN ON SKIN fall down and i get myself up i’ve found that the earth can’t hold me to pull down is gravity’s luck up with the stars, and i’m spinnin’ wildly hands in hair and necks inhaled i don’t know the way back down poisoned air and passes failed wings are not a welcome sound what do we know? what do we know about love? what do we know? we don’t know a thing about it. so put your lips on mine let’s take our bodies dancin’ sweat until we slide skin on skin let’s take our bodies dancin’ sweat until we slide, slide, slide skin on skin (slide) skin on skin (slide) kick hard as i breathe through water light curves as i spiral upwards too wet to find a fire starter come up for air and the time rolls backwards close your eyes, imagine sun please show me the way back down edge the tower, cock your gun wings are not a welcome sound what do we know? what do we know about love? what do we know? we don’t know a thing about it. so put your lips on mine … skin on skin skin on skin skin on skin
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IT’S LIKE THAT clouds hover it’s like that fully undress the darkness but just don’t touch her, no she is precious it’s like that smirkin’ at you as you go for the reach but she will swat you down with her eyes and you will feel ashamed it’s like that I know you want to change it but it’s just like that, oh it’s like that, it’s like that sometimes there is nothin’ you can do smoke chokes it’s like that fully consume the darkness but just don’t taste him, no he is special it’s like that welcoming you in, you go for the entrance but he will slam the door with his words and you will feel a rage what’s a girl to do? (don’t waste my time) it’s like that you got me good it’s true (get outta my mind) it’s like that what’s a girl to do? what’s a girl to do? what’s a girl to do? I’m fallin’ for, fallin’ for, fallin’ for you winds twist it’s like that fully toast to the darkness but just don’t sip from their glass they’re too duplicitous it’s like that lustin’ after you, and when you take your leave they will litter up your path with rejection’s broken glass and this is all I ask of you so what’s a girl to do? (don’t waste my time) it’s like that you got me good it’s true (get outta my mind) it’s like that so what’s a girl to do? (don’t waste my time) it’s like that what’s a girl to do? what’s a girl to do? I’m fallin’ for, fallin’ for, fallin’ for you so what’s a girl to do? (I can’t be no fool for two) I’m fallin’ for, fallin’ for, fallin’ for you it’s like that, it’s like that, It’s like that …
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I Don't Care 02:47
I DON’T CARE i don’t know you think of me i don’t know he thinks of me i don’t know what they think of me but you know, you know, i don’t care i don’t, i don’t, i don’t, i don’t care i don’t know what this thing means i don’t know what that thing means i don’t know what it all means but that don’t mean that i don’t, i don’t care that don’t mean that i don’t care! (hhhm) and if you choose to tell me then i’ll know but if you turn to sell me then i’ll go cuz only truth compels me, don’t you know why i don’t care? no no no (you can’t make me, you can’t make me care) you don’t take the time to think and i don’t know just what to think all i want to do is drink, watch the boat we built sink but i don’t care, i con’t, i don’t care so if you choose to tell me then i’ll know but if you turn to sell me then i’ll go cuz only truth compels me, don’t you know why i don’t care? no no no what do you do if you don’t care? how do you exit the fog? what do you do if you don’t care? when you’d rather be lost you would rather be lost, you would rather be lost. so if you choose to tell me then i’ll know but if you turn to sell me then i’ll go cuz only truth compels me, now you know i don’t care! no no no all these lines you’re sellin’ have got to go cuz only truth’s compellin’ you’ve got to know all this time just yellin’, it goes to show why I don’t care no no no
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Anyway 04:17
ANYWAY you can be such a jerk sometimes ya play poker like a cheat your shoes are still in the cupboard but you’re halfway down the street oh, now tell me, how’d we get away with this so long? in love, we breathe with our hearts not with our lungs in love, we speak with our hearts not with our tongues in love, all the things you wish you didn’t say in love, all the things you do to make me crazy why do we stay in love, anyway? i should get my tongue cut off but the fire makes it fly you say i come off heartless which i’d be hard-pressed to deny oh, now tell me, how’d we get away with this so long? in love, we breathe with our hearts … why do we stay in love, anyway? breathe, find the answer is time spent a reason to stay? one’s the past and one’s the future why are we here anyway? oh, now tell me, how’d we get away with this so long? in love, we breathe with our hearts …
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Knockin' 04:07
KNOCKIN’ you’re knockin’ on your own door, keys are in your pocket only you can open it, only you can lock it you ask me what i’m doin’, fear is in your question i don’t want a thing from you, love is just suggestion give just what you want to, take the things you need why ya gotta run away, you’re already free nobody wants you to go, nobody wants you to stay nobody wants you to give everything that you got nobody wants you to go, nobody wants you to stay nobody wants you to be anything that you’re not what you want to give is really want you’re scared to lose (I think maybe) what you want to give is really what you’re scared to lose? you know the wind will touch the trees and make ‘em dance, dance, dance but the angle of the breeze is up to chance reachin’ up and reachin’ down, the branches do their thing how could I ask for any sound that you can’t already sing? nobody wants you to go … what you want to give … you’re knockin’ on your own door, keys are in your pocket only you can open it, only you can lock it
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CRICKET HEART There once was a man with a chirp in his heart much like he had swallowed a cricket When she held her ear pressed to the rise of his chest She heard a sweet night serenade But the man with the chirping heart was not one who readily shared all his thinkin’ So when the cricket’s tune played Did it prove it was love they had made? So in love… Then came a night when the cricket’s tune ceased to give enough peace to her mind so she asked him point blank and her heart slowly sank When he paused to consider his answer The man with the cricket heart was the type for whom words were not said if not certain It’s true that he loved her But what about their future? So in love… A cricket just sings It starts in late spring Through summer and fall every year Though quiet in winter Love is there, don’t deny it That chirping of doubt in her ear So the man with the cricket housed in his heart on this night held her tight in a whisper With his hand on her back, pressed her flat to his chest Finally his fears confessed So in love… A cricket just sings It starts in late spring Through summer and fall every year Though quiet in winter Love is there, don’t deny it Silent chirping of doubt in her ear A cricket’s consistent But her love is persistent Beats like a heart through her veins So silence the worries Snow storms tempered to flurries Quiet the cricket, and your love will remain A cricket just sings Consistent like spring But this love, it persists, even when your doubt kicks it down So silence those worries Snow storms tempered to flurries Quiet the cricket and your love, and your love, she’ll stick around
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Castaway 03:35
CASTAWAY i am a shore people wash up on me like you desperate and thirsty take in your tongue i’ll give you some kindness has chiseled creases into my smile but wait your turn you’ll never steady me i know that now cuz I am a trunk of a jealous tree looking at the birds lustfully you are a castaway and I’ve been cast away who’s gonna ask the way to our hearts? you are a castaway and I’ve been cast away who’s gonna ask the way to our hearts? i am that tree people carve their names in me good thing I don’t scar easy birds walk their tiny feet across my bark and leave their marks like brands not one feather understands but wait your turn you’ll never steady me i know that now cuz you are a castaway… i am a shore, I am a jealous tree but that don’t mean you can wash up on or walk all over me you are a desperate and thirsty drowning bird, heavy with wings that think they’re free but wait your turn you’ll never steady me i know that now you’ll never steady me cuz you are a castaway…
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Illusion 03:45
ILLUSION you love the illusion that she was your queen but the crown was not hers it was in your head she is not a one-kingdom girl, she is always free you just chose to not hear what she said, what she said you can’t go too far in building your illusion, stop building your illusion you can’t go too far in building your illusions fantasy eclipsing honesty… you love the illusion that he’s who you’ve waited for his timetable’s too full he’s never on time he has stood you up now, once or maybe twice, you don’t know he’s not just forgetful you’ve been waiting for the wrong guy you can’t go too far in building your illusion… people show you who they are, and when they do, you don’t believe, you don’t believe then you say they broke your heart but it’s not true, you were naïve, you were naïve people show you who they are, and when they do, you don’t believe, you don’t believe and now you’ve got this broken heart but it’s not their fault, it’s on you, it’s on you, it’s on you, it’s on you, it’s on… you can’t go too far in building your illusion… fantasy eclipsing honesty… you love the illusion…
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Paris 03:18
PARIS if you’re gonna make me feel this way i promise i won’t walk away from this if you’re gonna make me feel this way i’ll open my heart-shaped fist and you can reach for my lonely little hand come walk with me clasp at love’s sweet form like something great’s been born on the streets of Paris only love is free i’ll choose you and you choose me on the streets of Paris la ville d’amour, je t’aime if you’re gonna make me feel this way i promise i won’t fight to stay alone if you’re gonna make me feel this way we’ll lace up our well-worn souls and we can make music on cobbled little stones come walk with me on the streets of Paris clasp at love’s sweet form … la ville d’amour feel the air sharpening our silent stares arguments both lost and fair on the streets of Paris fill our chests commemorating silent deaths brought back to life with gasps and breaths on the streets of Paris la ville d’amour clasp at love’s sweet form …

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released March 27, 2021

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Ember Swift 北京市, China

Canadian artist Ember Swift is an internationally touring musician, songwriter, and founder of the independent label Few’ll Ignite Sound. Originally from Toronto, she has spent the past decade + in the magnetic city of Beijing, China. In non-pandemic times, she tours throughout Europe and Asia and returns to North America at least once a year for live performances and special events. ... more

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