Secret Songs

by Emily Baker

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    Secret Songs are for those in the know; mailing list members and all round good guys that I know, love and meet at every gig.
    These are just some of the new songs that I'm demoing up once I get the chance, I think they show a different direction...but I'd love to know your thoughts too.
    A few fans have requested that they make it possible to buy these demos as opposed to just having them for nothing, you're more than welcome to add these to your collection for free but if you feel they are worth more I've made it possible for a donation here too.
    Big love to all your faces x

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Song sketches, secret sketches, secret songs.

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released 16 September 2011
All the workings and meanderings of Emily Baker.

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tags: acoustic acoustic folk demo singer-songwriter sketch songwriter Brighton

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Emily writes songs about people, relationships and places. She tells stories about disastrous friendships, love hitting you ... more like a hammer and it dissolving like it should never have been there.

She's toured with Amy Wadge & Pete Riley, Jon Allen and Chris Difford; gigged with Pete Doherty, Beth Rowley, Charlene Soraia, Gabriela Cilmi, Jesca Hoop, Charlie Winston & more besides....so that's nice less

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Track Name: Second Chance (Demo)
First time out,
Tugging a sleeve,
With dirt on your knees,
You're the last one about,
Oh so naive,
No hope of reprieve,

It's like something took your bones,
To surround you with reasons not to go,

When you can't fly or shoot for the moon,
When your heart's tied to a lead filled balloon,
And you're caught trying to climb inside all that you do,
And fall out of view,
Oh when your toes trick you out of the dance,
It's a quick-step excuse in advance,
But there's second thoughts and there's second starts,
When you give yourself up a second chance,
Singing ooh....

They say there's a three strike rule,
Where the further you run,
You close in on the sun,
You paid a thief to guide you through,
So worms in a can,
Won't just break you down,

When did something take your bones,
And surround you with reasons not to go?

We've all got to keep acting up,
Not pretend to play,
Or let them chase us away,
And we've all seen,
That you can't just dream...
Track Name: Run (Demo)
A stone skims the stream,
The rise and fall,
The river rolls I turn and heaven's here,
And to the ocean its only flood wall spray,
Where starlings swirl round an ice cream girl,
It's like I've found my way,

Where I can breathe,
And take a path that leads,
Down through the trees,
Catch Autumn leaves until I'm remedied,

Run,
Run like you've become the wind,
Come run rings around my heart,
On a melody that breezes in,
If there's chaos where there should be calm
Find comfort in the false alarm,
Oh and run like the wind.

The smoke that rose from sands
these hopeful hands with best laid plans
a prayer for a lucky year
And as orange sets,
Around a jumbo jet
and paints a silhouette
on the barefoot tread,
The sound of a shifting gear.

Where I can breathe,
And take a path that leads,
Down through the trees,
Catch Autumn leaves until I'm remedied,

Run,
Run like you've become the wind,
Come run rings around my heart,
On a melody that breezes in,
If there's chaos where there should be calm
Find comfort in the false alarm,
Oh and run like the wind.

But hold that stone,
It's got problems of its own,
It's history of a chequered flight,
But stones hold schemes,
Doesn't matter where they've been,
It's the places that they're going and the way that they attract the light.

Run,
Run like you've become the wind,
Come run rings around my heart,
On a melody that breezes in,
If there's chaos where there should be calm
Find comfort in the false alarm,
Oh and run like the wind,
Oh and run like the wind,
Oh and run like the wind,
Like the wind...
Track Name: Northern Lights (Demo)
Funny is the time of year,
Nobody's familiar here,
No surprise I've lost my keys,

I made a circle in a rowing boat,
A broken compass stuck in my throat,
Oh I'm all at sea,

But maybe it's the big test,
Pack everything into a box,
If there's grace left,

We'll see the northern light show,
I'll tell you reasons why I play the clown,
The heroes only ever go and let you down,
We'll see the northern light show,
But the colour's fading out too fast,
'cos Superman was only ever made of glass,
We'll see the northern light show,
And we'll see what the light shows,

I'm tying down all I can find,
And holding onto nursery rhymes,
To the string that marked out my tracks,
And it's true that there's been harder knocks,
But it seems to me the morning's clock strikes one with all that I lack,

But time for me to confess,
To admit I tried to catch a glimpse of what grace was left,

We'll see the northern light show,
I'll tell you reasons why I play the clown,
The heroes only ever go and let you down,
We'll see the northern light show,
But the colour's fading out too fast,
'cos Superman was only ever made of glass,
We'll see the northern light show,
And we'll see what the light shows,

And it's all I can do,
To save us from the undeniable truth,
Be brave enough to walk away to grow new,
The everything in the light show, (in the light show)

So hold onto your tears,
Forget about your fears in the light show,

We'll see the northern light show,
I'll tell you reasons why I play the clown,
The heroes only ever go and let you down,
We'll see the northern light show,
But the colour's fading out too fast,
'cos Superman was only ever made of glass,

We'll see the northern light show,
Oh the reason why I play the clown,
The heroes only ever go and let you down,
We'll see the northern light show,
And we'll see what the light shows,
We'll see the northern light show,
And we'll see what the light shows,