Speak Your Truth

from So Slowly by Emil Pye

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lyrics

Pick up the pace,
Put your best foot forward,
Your saving grace,
Is common currency.

No give or take,
Negotiation.
Sit on down,
And turn your face to me

Speak your truth,
Speak your truth.
Open up and tell your story,
Move your lips and hold me spellbound.

Don’t you know I’m black and blue,
Not sorry.
In truth you will release the words,
And knowledge.
Fire burns and cleans the wounds.
Fire burns and cleans.

Breathe out slowly,
Your smoke surrounds you.
Your isolation,
Is coming to an end.

Feel the strength,
Of this connection,
Come in from the,
Cold my friend.

Black and blue,
Black and blue.
All my bones are bruised and broken,
All my thoughts are trapped in silence.

Don’t you know I’m black and blue,
Not sorry.
In truth you will release the words,
And knowledge.
Fire burns and cleans the wounds.
Fire burns and cleans.

I guess that I’m just one more case of
Nothing left to loose.
The tears drying on my face are
Not what I would choose.

I grow weary of the battle that’s inside me,
I don’t want to be afraid of who I am or might be.

Let it go…

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from So Slowly, released November 16, 2020

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Emil Pye Manchester, UK

Shortly after crawling into recovery from alcoholism and selling all but one of my guitars, I discovered I could sing and started writing songs.
I wrote songs for 3 years before I began recording during the Covid lockdown.

Emil combines intricate finger-picked acoustic guitar with impressive string arrangements and the merest hint of psychedelia... ... more

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