We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

If You Were Dead

from Light Up the Dawn by Emily Best

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 CAD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

Verse 1
There must be some kind of reason for this
There must something that I missed
Like a bird on a wire, you watched as I caught fire

Verse 2
There must be some kind of mistake
Cause this is so much more than I can take
You were someone I adored now I don’t know you anymore

Chorus
If you were dead, if you had died instead
I think it might worse to see a ghost in a body that still works
In a body that still works but refuses to be kind
In a body that still works, but left the man I knew behind

Verse 3
I used to hope your dreams would come true
You know I really wanted them to,
Now I don’t wish anything for you.

I never wanted it to be this way,
I hoped it would look different today
But you can’t take back what you didn’t say

Chorus
If you were dead, if you had died instead
I really wonder if it’s worse to see a ghost in a body that still works
In a body that still works but doesn’t know how to love
In a body that still works, but will never be enough
It will never be enough

Outro
You change the truth, you change your mind
Change it all inside
Change the story every memory so you can sleep at night
You change the truth, you change your mind
Change it all rewrite
Every memory, change the past so you can sleep at night

You change the truth, change your mind
Change it all inside.
Change the story, every memory
You keep telling lies
You change the truth, you change your mind
Change it all rewrite
You keep lying to yourself so you don’t have to be kind.

credits

from Light Up the Dawn, released April 8, 2022
Written, arranged and produced by Emily Best

Emily Best (electric guitar, vocals, organ)
Rob Thomson (bass)
Max Marceau-Ley (drums)
Gavin Youngash (electric guitar)

Recorded at Raincity Recorders Oct 2020-Jan 2021
Engineered by Jesse Gander
Mixed and Co-Produced by Jesse Gander
Mastered by Jamie Sitar of Outtatown Sound

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Emily Best image

Emily Best Vancouver, British Columbia

A singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Vancouver B.C., Emily Best’s distinctive melodies and orchestral leanings paint a backdrop that intermingles the driving energy of jazz and rock with the familiar nostalgia of 1960's southern country-soul. Her songwriting delves unassumingly through jazz, pop, folk and rock with earnest lyricism that ponders the human condition. ... more

contact / help

Contact Emily Best

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Emily Best, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now