Emmeline’s ’The Sky Tonight’, from her second EP ’Small-Town Girls and Soft Summer Nights’, is OUT NOW on 70Hz Recordings!
I’m not the same
We don’t share the same fate
I’m electric, caught in ribbons
Blinded by the grace of inspiration
And when that feeling hits
It’s all my skin and bone, pushing at the fingertips
That’s what she’d say
The prophet that I’m not
To voice the generation with the ego of the gods
Draped in parchment, and ink, magnesium and zinc
Vitamins and strung-out things to say
Pallid clear the sky tonight, I’m writing up the stars
Containing several strands of thought of how I’d talk to Mars
In my sleep, instead of simply counting sheep
I’d be running up the walls of the dream
When I was 17, and the lights began to fade
I thought it frankly cinematic, the colours I would grade
In the film they’d make of me, where I’d play myself
Beautifully, lucidly, dutifully
Honour in th