No Ordinary Song (feat. Jo Lawry)

from I Wrote You A Song by Emma Stephenson

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It’s not an ordinary song It’s unlike anything I heard
When it came to me I was surprised
Then it taught me the bittersweet tone of goodbye
It was a strange and simple melody
And though I only sang a while
There was something alive in the sound
And I knew that the music could always be found
Always be found in the memories we made Though they were fleeting
Found in the corners of our dreams Ever repeating
repeating...
It was a song with few refrains And though it was subtle and assured I would offer a peace of the sky
I would offer it if it were mine to divide
If it were mine the sky would host
A small dedication to this moment
Just a monument floating in space Frozen within our senses beyond our dismay
Never to fade like the foolish remedies we thought we needed All of the overused cliches that we depleted Receded
I found a temporary home
Within a song that lasts forever
Like a wonderful evergreen hymn
How the intricate phrases got under my skin
And settled within like childhood reveries At anytime to be retrieved
Then I knew it was time to let go
This extraordinary music was not mine alone
Not mine alone like the memories we made Though they were fleeting Knowing that though we move along The songs repeating repeating...

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from I Wrote You A Song, released April 5, 2020

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Emma Stephenson Sydney, Australia

PhD-holding jazz pianist turned singer-songwriter Emma Stephenson is making a postpartum comeback with two motherhood themed songs "If Your First Word Isn't 'Mama'" and "She is Here Now".

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I adore Ron Sexsmith's songwriting and delivery. He doesn't have any dud songs. They're all superb. Emma Stephenson
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