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Selfish Heart by Emily Best

from Light Up the Dawn by Emily Best

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Selfish heart, leave him alone.
He’s not yours, he’s not yours to own
It’s hard I know but let him go

Selfish heart, you wanted him from the start
You saw a good man and you put him on a shelf
So you could keep him for yourself

A house by the sea, dog on the beach
Feeling your hand in mine even when you’re out of reach
In our house by the sea, but it’s a

Selfish dream,
Cracked and broken bursting at the seams
You know I hold it down so hard I want to scream
So you don’t know about my selfish dream

What if what if what if what if this love is real
It’s been so long since I met you it’s how I feel
What if what if what if it could be real love
What if what if what if it could be enough
For you for you for you I’d a lifetime
But for now I’ll just dream it’s fine
But for now I’ll just dream it’s fine

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

Instrumentalists:

Emily Best (vocals, wurlitzer, rhodes, piano)
Peggy Lee (cello)
Meredith Bates (violin)
Elisa Thorn (harp)
Paul Rigby (pedal steel)
Alison Gorman (trumpet)
Ellen Marple (trombone)
Dominic Conway (sax)
Robin Layne (marimba)
Max Marceau-Ley (drums)
Rob Thomson (bass)


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

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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

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