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Artist: Wye Oak
Canonical path: /wye-oak/emmylou
Related lyric paths: 6
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Emmylou
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Emmylou
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Try to live like this forever
Love my mom and?
Even my ambition had
To write itself in black
Yeah, I know, it sounded right
And helped my mother sleep at night
But everything to everyone
To you wasn't enough
You could see through
I could, too
Emmylou
All the love I have in me
I understand how I could be
A terrible example when
I take my own advice
I am not the victim, here
And I am not the enemy
So why did I design for you
A face to place your sympathy?
I'll do any fantasy
But nothing that could seem to be
I know this from the agony
Because I don't know how
I believe in common sense
And maybe with coincidence
But I don't believe in heaven
So I have to have you now
You could see through
I could, too
Emmylou
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