Name: Emma
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: ‘Emma’ is both a story and a metaphor for an all-consuming, drug-like relationship whose highs have an unavoidable flip-side. The song touches on the visions and hopes we suppress, the compromises we make for comfort and security, and the way those compromises change us.

Emma

from Slipping Away by Hillsburn

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‘Emma’ is both a story and a metaphor for an all-consuming, drug-like relationship whose highs have an unavoidable flip-side. The song touches on the visions and hopes we suppress, the compromises we make for comfort and security, and the way those compromises change us.

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You pick me up.
It's winter, my knuckles white.
Radio blares.
Your hand on my buckle.
I buckle, I buckle.

Sat out on the lake,
Car heavy on wasted ice.
The rain was ribbons in the headlights.
Then we were sinking,
And sinking,
And sinking,
And sinking.

No one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, I never meant to get so low.

The car, it fell through.
The lake, like your love -- dark, wide.
It would have swallowed me by daylight.
Everything swimming,
And swimming,
And swimming,
And swimming.

And no one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, I never meant to get so low.
You know that no one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, where have you been?
It's been so long.

But I sleep with her
And flatline my secret sides.
I only travel in the sunshine.
Emma, I'm different.

No one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, I never meant to get so low.

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from Slipping Away, released May 28, 2021

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Hillsburn Halifax, Nova Scotia

We're an indie pop band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Our new record, Slipping Away, is out now!

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