Jocelyn was the one to let me know about this girl from the UK, and I rather like her songs. This one’s pretty epic. I think it’s full of puns, but I can’t tell whether it’s intentional or if I’m just kinda frisky at the moment.
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I remember how we met,
But your name I forget,
Like the door that I have kept unopened.
I remember it was wet,
And the swelter and the sweat,
And the shelter of the bed we were cloaked in.
You were stroking me like a pet,
But you didn’t own me yet,
And the tape in the cassette deck was choking,
Spat out a broken “Hallelujah”.
But I’ve seen the way the earth,
Throws its aces with a curve.
You were waiting for the words,
To come to you.
Just to say that you prefer to be lonely,
To be cursed,
And to do the very worst you can do.
Yeah I remember you like a verse
That I didn’t want to learn.
I just looked into your eyes,
And I knew you.
Now the thought of you is burnt
On my body from the first time you did
Rewind that line from Hallelujah–
The original Leonard Cohen version.
Well I wish I never met you that day.
You said I have a room and music to play.
I have a room let me show you the way.
I wish that I’d never come.
But now that I have, I would do it again.
I would forget like I’d piss on a grave.
I would forget like I’d piss on a grave.
That the words as they came to my tongue were hallelujah.
Hallelujah!
And the sky was so much bluer.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the world was so much newer.
You said I have a room,
at the top of the stairs.
I have a room with a view.
I know we all have a cross that we bear,
And I’d like to show it to you.
And you left me in the light.
And you met me in the light.
And we only had a night between the two.
You were waiting for the worst,
You were listening for a curse,
But the only thing I heard was “Hallelujah”.
You said I have a room
At the top of the stairs.
I have a room with a view.
I know we all have a cross that we bear,
And I’d like to give it to you.
And I won’t forget how the sky was set.
I said I have a place to go back to.
La La La I will have you yet.
I will carry you there if I have to.
No I won’t forget, no I won’t.
No I won’t forget no.
Woah, First Love.
- Emmy the Great, First Love