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Two Steps Forward (Bonus Track)
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Two Steps Forward (Bonus Track) was released on August 10, 2009 by Close Harbour as a part of the album First Love (Bonus Edition)
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Release DateAugust 10, 2009
LabelClose Harbour
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM122

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Emmy the Great
Emmy the Great
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Emmy the Great
Emmy the Great
Writer

Lyrics

In the middle of September, we entertained the thought
Of falling into rabbit holes and never coming out
In the garden of a girl whose mum is friends with Elton John
So she kept telling us, but still
We slipped a year or so behind ourselves, the time's already gone
When people were just people, not the jobs that they performed
Our songs were just a thing we did with melodies and chords
Now you're available in all good record stores
But I knew you best
Back when love was just a feeling that ran out between my legs
Onto the back of my dress
Onto the clothes that I was wearing
Oh, when I was a child, I was expected to believe
In something up above that no one touches or can see
They tell me that unless you're looking out of magazines
Well, then you don't exist, but I knew that you were
Real before I read it in an interview today
Before I used you as a surface, did a line across your face
In the toilet of a girl who's sitting outside
Dropping names like they were carpet bombs
She knows everyone
But I knew you first
Back when love was underneath you with my fingers in the dirt
You said, "I'll stop if it hurts"
You said, "I'll stop it if it's scaring"
You said, "You know that I can stop this anytime
If you think that it is tearing"
And I think of you when the leaves are brown
I think of leaves that I have felt against my body on the ground
I think of places where we could go to now
Until they find us, till they catch us
Until they wake us and we drown
Until I know where I am
I'm in a garden half-remembering
Your fingers in my hand
Were like a book made of sand
And it's the middle of September and your image starts to fade
To the one that they have printed on the twenty-seventh page
You don't like to read these things, you know I do it anyway
"I have no choice, I have no choice," I say
And I go out into the garden where the birds begin to sing
And I'm troubled by the thought of all the daylight they will bring
And I think that I will let somebody take me home again
'Cause if I knew you at all
Then my love is underneath you making puddles on the floor
And I'm asleep to the thought
Of two people walking two steps forward
Always to the lives they've chosen
Clicks and hums and sirens and the sun
Of two people walking two steps forward
Always to the lives they've chosen
Clicks and hums and sirens and the sun
Of two people walking two steps forward
Always to the lives we've chosen
Clicks and hums and sirens and the sun
Written by: Emma-Lee Moss
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