Power Play (griever dream)

from Sentimentalist by Emma Worley

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When you’re away I can’t help but obsess
Did you miss a step and trip into traffic?
Or sleep at the wheel of a hot air balloon
like a classic cartoon, doubt that will ever happen.

But time has a way, always winning the game
a cruel power play; give you love then take it away

Slept through your birthday, slept through Halloween
Been sleeping for weeks, drift in the time machine
I’m in the corner of all of my dreams
when you arrive that’s where you’ll find me
and when you do it is such a relief
but then my teeth fall out like rotten, forgotten fruit in the heat

Like a machine you didn’t know you were driving, a curtain you don’t know you’re hiding behind
Feeling shy like a new moon rising-
lingerie drying on a line in after midnight
Leading lady with stage fright–

–can you sing the song that you want to hear?
does it sound right? does it sound sincere?
does your little voice shake like a kid in a play?
wearing a mask made of papier mache?
Or are you too afraid to let anything through?
Are your lips made of glue?
Can you undo for someone what you wanted undone for you?

Is there a machine you didn’t know you were driving,
a curtain you don’t know you’re hiding behind
Do you feel like a newborn crying? Baby bird flying?
A cloud that hangs in the sky like
A little kid on a high dive

what in the world do I want with my life?
I want to be somebody that you would still like
if you were around to like anyone still-
doesn’t feel real, doubt it ever really will but
time has a way, always winning the game
a cruel power play, give you love then take it away

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from Sentimentalist, released June 9, 2022

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Emma Worley Toronto, Ontario

Emma Worley is a singer-songwriter from Toronto ON. Her debut record, Sentimentalist, came out June 9th 2022 on Victory Pool.

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