Name: Emerald
Duration: P00H03M23S
Description: Musically, this was an attempt to break out of the shoegaze mold I had been writing in more or less since I started playing in bands in my teens. Early Everything But the Girl was a particular influence on this track, which I still think is quite pretty despite being badly recorded.

Emerald

from Retro by Time Baby

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Musically, this was an attempt to break out of the shoegaze mold I had been writing in more or less since I started playing in bands in my teens. Early Everything But the Girl was a particular influence on this track, which I still think is quite pretty despite being badly recorded.

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This is you
On a bed in Beijing
Bathed in worn lantern light
Lying behind paper screens showing
History unrelated to me

In some parts of the world
There are only stars
From the ground to the sky
And we watch them
Like drifting in heaven
All composed in emerald

This is you
In rivers and forests
Still as stones, claiming these seconds
While across the world
Old men write laws
To steal these precious stones
Before we even feel them

In some parts of the world
There are only stars
From the ground to the sky
And we watch them
Like drifting in heaven
All composed in emerald
And we watch them
Like drifting in heaven
All composed in emerald

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from Retro, released November 22, 2014

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