Paper Forest (In The Afterglow of Rapture) Lyrics

Song Paper Forest (In The Afterglow of Rapture)
Artist Emmy the Great
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[00:00.83] You're not unlucky, you're just not very smart.
[00:03.23] These things will never leave you - they're as close as you can get
[00:06.71] To a blueprint for the future - but you can call it fate.
[00:13.13] It's like these days I have to write down almost every thought I've held,
[00:16.56] So scared I am becoming of forgetting how it felt,
[00:20.17] And these fears they will unravel me one day,
[00:22.45] But still I am afraid.
[00:26.34] But I'm blessed -
[00:29.52] Just to be, more or less -
[00:33.20] Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
[00:39.49] Oh blessed -
[00:42.81] Just to be, more or less -
[00:46.57] Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
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[00:56.01] Now you're blessed amongst all women,
[00:57.76] Now a man who's very good,
[00:59.62] He tells you how you feel until your life is understood,
[01:02.92] And he leads you through it arm in arm as though
[01:05.31] There was a map to guide the way.
[01:09.30] Now you write because you love him, now you write because he's kind,
[01:12.96] You write so much, you look up and you wrote yourself behind,
[01:16.15] And you're standing in a labyrinth of paper and the map has been erased.
[01:22.61] But you're blessed -
[01:25.40] Just to be, more or less -
[01:29.23] Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
[01:35.78] Are you blessed?
[01:39.03] Just to be, more or less?
[01:42.39] Now you're standing in the afterglow of rapture, but there is no rapture left.
[02:02.36] Oh come, and we will celebrate the things that make us real,
[02:05.88] The things that break us open, and the things that make us feel
[02:08.96] Like these accidental meetings up and partings of the way
[02:12.39] Are not so much our choice but in the blood of how we're made,
[02:15.64] It's like the way I have to write down almost everything I see,
[02:18.91] So that the record does obscure the thing the record used to be,
[02:20.91] And I know I'm not unlucky,
[02:24.23] I was just born this way.
[02:28.61] But I'm blessed.oh~~
[02:42.44] blessed~~oh~~
[02:55.25] Now a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles,
[02:58.79] The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and it smiles,
[03:02.10] And we all fall down
[03:04.43] Like wind blows through the paper forest.
[03:08.51] And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles,
[03:11.89] The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and smiles,
[03:15.34] And we all fall down
[03:15.44] As wind blows through the paper forest.s
[03:21.72] And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisle
[03:25.32] Alarm clock fingers turn they're counting seconds like they're miles
[03:28.28] And you say, "wake up now, 'cause I can see no paper forest."
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