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Dancing on the Faultline

by Emily Is

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1.
(when i walked in) i knew the trouble started the ticking time bomb in my hand (starts flashing) countdown to a showdown, educate/ misunderstand tell myself it's different-- different players different game they may all be different but it's me that's still the same. you'd think i'd learn but i don't you'd think i'd learn but i won't i'm not bad but i play that way (when i woke up) days later accepted the razor blade inside my mind i vowed to find you in the wreckage explain i want you to be mine broken by need symbolically on my knees sometimes choosing chains is the way to make you free what's left after this wandering, this wandering, once this wandering is done from this wandering all this wandering i hope what's left is you and me cause you had me you and me
2.
ain't nothing wrong with my beach song but i can't get me there no i can't get me there i tried to go yesterday the party went late and the list of my accomplishments missed checkmarks on every page I want to go today but i'm a transportation slave looking for my bikini, oops, i missed the train i want to go tomorrow but i'm gonna have to say no i like necking on the pier, my baby can't go we can plan, we can plan, take the passion out of fairy land or in the sand, in the sand, we can make love ain't nothing wrong with my beach song i want on one hand the noncommittal freedom of space and on the other hand the discipline to make the world we need to make reversal in roles if it's the ocean that beckons home hate myself for wanting less at the same time i want more looking for fun as the beat goes on looking for love as the beat goes on looking for peace as the beat goes on ain't nothing wrong with my beach song
3.
cruise down boulevards through the gay and straight bars loose, in full pursuit learning to play hard is it too much to ask for a little room to move a place to laugh looking at the dudes look at me shake my ass murder when the beat comes beaten by the bass drum disassembling this brain into this body that i'm bumping now where'd you go now where'd you go i'm in love with the ghost of the disco spin around i'm dressed nice looking like i love life sweatin red he pushed up in and breathed upon my neckline was it the moonlight or the garden at midnight his alchemy convinced me took every spell that he could recite and i thought i was a strong girl but oh no, i was wrong girl one pass behind his mask and i'm already gone, girl now where'd you go? now where'd you go? i'm in love with the ghost of the disco i''m in love with the ghost of the disco
4.
singulate singulate singulate that singulate that vibe yeah we move like we're alive
5.
In Custody 03:30
i don't want to be incarcerated i don't want to be in custody i recognize the pattern, well this one i lay out when something looks too perfect i graciously bow out give myself too much credit, sometimes not enough but i keep making choices to save art and kill love i don't want to be incarcerated i don't want to be in custody several times see me at the crossroads smart enough to know i should choose the way to go but find a way to say no gut instincts take control filaments into your soul you can choose a path but sacrifice for rock and roll i don't want to be incarcerated i don't want to be in custody if the threat of a lifetime all the way in solitary accepting the blindfold to skate over tragedy who is it that says so bestow the key to mind control what we've resigned, in this pact is our logic of yes and no
6.
culture of escaping costuming and caped men frolic over the rainbow your colors are around me i'm in the mood for love and drugs i'm in the mood for drugs and love behaving like halloween hyperbole or what you dream run away into the screen no background til you paint the green i'm in the mood for love and drugs i'm in the mood for drugs and love ordinary that i feel an extraordinary need the cycle viruses itself bridge the gap of what is real i'm in the mood for love and drugs i'm in the mood for drugs and love back to sitting on the floor overstimulated still bored new perspective helps me breath look up to you, you down at me i'm in the mood for love and drugs i'm in the mood for drugs and love gods and goddesses we contrive can't deliver a mob arrives insatiable, good reason why swallow emptiness instead of life
7.
Comatose 03:29
where the fuck have i been a tornado moved in it got me so high i'm getting close almost comatose i'm getting close almost comatose you can feed us drugs if the doctor signs off and the bill is paid i'm getting close almost comatose the control we surrender to the next pretender check what we contend for the love of the next emperor easy to let them fall one-sided wall with a mirror on the opposite no one left to call on soma you get me close almost almost
8.
i'm playing dolls with this very very pretty pretty bomb i dress it up sugarcoated, lacquered like a stage mom tuck it in kiss it's cheek fuck the wick it's such a deep hard on smash that piggy bank as a way to pay and thank you for that pretty pretty bomb dangerous dangerous dangerous it will be cold in new york city this year the window's closed, but the first split warms up in here the energy watching me he can see i'm struggling keeps on trade the future for the now thanks to the pretty pretty bomb as if a silver bullet you come in like you know it like you got it like you'll take it like you want it like you own it. pretending to have all this muscle and bread like a zombie cowboy lassoing the dead i feel heavy and wet underrated, undersexed always move the simple question into the complex neglected but fortified hard in love but mind on science tunnel vision questions why acts of faith, child on fire
9.
i've been warned, I know i hope you change your mind. until you do, i'm bored and dancing on the faultline step closer one step step closer one step step closer one step step closer bliss we're dancing on the faultline one little kiss dancing on the faultline step closer one step step closer one step step closer one step step closer now dancing on the fault line say it loud dancing on the faultline we're going down dancing on the faultline limbo now we're dancing on the faultline step closer one step step closer one step step closer one step step closer dancing on the fault line don't give a fuck we're dancing on the faultline we push our luck dancing on the faultline we're giving up dancing on the faultline step closer one step step closer one step step closer one step step closer gotta laugh we're dancing on the faultline forget your past we're dancing on the faultline future? who cares? the faultline step closer step closer one step step closer one step step closer
10.
was holding back i knew early i was in a mismatch though we shared solace couldn't look at you like that you can't fault me for falling down trying to catch a friend when you were not around if it feels like love it probably is love by why cause i am not enough i walked away the first time feeling like the bastard child told to go you had someone else in mind and i saw the same thing happening your lady is there i am left hanging if it feels like love it probably is love then why cause i am not enough what i never told you
11.
i hear people say that they wish they knew it then but that would make them different it would change the way they acted and you can say it's wrong or right if we're vector-based in time got to question this 20/20 hindsight everywhere where i go you can't follow but in this place i know we will wander like understanding is regression to the past but i can live a future better understanding that sentimental memory fades the truth to black time goes by but we still don't know what we had. everywhere where i go you can't follow but in this place i know we will wander i feel this spinning rock turning underneath my toes a sense of retrograde don't change the way it goes if i'm a spiderweb underneath a wooden home it's my own pattern, leave it alone everywhere where i go you can't follow but in this place i know we will wander
12.
if you dreamed me up then where have i been? mindfuck magic of where and when. allow me the gift to love again the smell and the sweat of this body i'm in. in case you are wondering now is the time if this is real life then give me some more. let it echo back and forth like your favorite chord. find what's good and make it yours give yourself back as earth's reward in case you are wondering now is the time couldn't make it more clear if i spelled it out don't feed the poison of fear and doubt it's easy to forget about this moment we have is happening now in case you are wondering now is the time this is it, boy, this is it this is it, boy, this is it this is it, boy, this is it this is it boy.

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released June 15, 2015

all songs written and performed by emily is & roger greenawalt.
featuring chatterbox on piano.
album artwork by adam, shin & emily is

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