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First Impressions

by Erin Snape

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phil lively Imaginative creativity eludes some people, despite their undoubted technical ability.
Not so, Erin Snape.
If, in 10 years, we’re not all aware of Erin Snape and referring to her as “critically acclaimed, award winning English musician, singer-songwriter, Erin Snape” – I shall wonder what is wrong with everyone.
My big find of the twenties.
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ErinInStereo
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ErinInStereo A professional quality album from a bedroom producer that is fantastically written and beautifully performed from beginning to end. Favorite track: Hit The Road.
Might Be Alon
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Might Be Alon As far as First Impressions go, this one is great. I can't wait to meet you again!
Nareese
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Nareese An absolutely breathtaking young talent who, confronted with sudden viral popularity, stepped up her "bedroom producer" game to produce this work that would make experienced musicians twice her age proud! An incredible sense of harmony and storytelling brings these 13 tunes to joyous life! Keep an eye on this one, she has the potential for huge things in her future! Makes me... Happy! :) Favorite track: Happy.
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1.
Emperor 02:38
You know your place Amongst rivers and daisies And hearts beating safely as one And you could find comfort In mountains of hugs But you're better off loving the ones that you want And you could have it all What could I say to bring you back You'd be an emperor Nothing I do would even matter Go on be an emperor if you Wanna feel the heat of a Thousand dead promises and lies Made by the people who Live through some thinly veiled disguise Go on be an emperor if you like And what's a whole feast if The comfort's not sweet And the love and the peace have gone bad? We can sit by the daisies And talk until day bleeds to night And then we'll say that my parents want me back I can't quite, believe it all But you're here I guess I'll enjoy it before you leave it all I can't quite, believe it all But you're here should I thank you Are daisies enough, to keep pleasing you Have I gone crazy it feels like I'm dreaming up All these godforsaken tales You found your place Amongst rivers and daisies And hearts beating safely as one
2.
Happy 02:48
Hello to the fog of the day Will you be nice to me And thaw the ice for me oh Where will I go if I'm scared of the way Why don't you let me see and leave the sunshine be Where is everyone going? Where is the weather in sun all day and I'm Happy Just a voice or a word Wrapping round me smiling out at the world Saying everything's gonna be alright Just sit here for a minute let me hold you tight and Out of something so small Nothing matters and you're ten feet tall Why don't you bottle it up and let me have a try And remember this feeling for the rest of your life be Happy Oh and when you come will you happen to stay Or are you leaving soon Come again when you choose Give me a person, a smile and a song So I can talk to you Come on and talk to me too Oh hello Where are you going Hello (where are) Where are you going
3.
I know the loveliest boy made of soot, sand and silk With a jewel in his eye and a neck made of milk With a brain twice the size of the boy that it built With eyeliner smudged around the bottom and spilt He's the loveliest boy with the loveliest grin He'll smile so wide, mind his teeth on your chin He loves bees and birds and bottles blowing in the wind He’s the loveliest boy because I love him
4.
Hit The Road 03:00
Hit the road, love And use your common sense to know it won't explode, love Grab a handful of cards, and hit the road 'Cause you know that life has a lot of time spent doing nothing Ooh, I have to say I'm proud of you 'Cause you won't go insane, you'll just call back saying that the week was good and the month was fraying at the seams Ram the curb, love Leave skid marks and gravel and fire wherever you turn, love Make it hell behind and run so you don't burn 'Cause you'll learn that life doesn't run on petrol and luck half the time Ooh, the world won't know what's coming through When you make your mark you'll be in central park, gotta get on the road and drive there fast, love Slow down, slow down, slow down Hit the brakes and look around at everything you don't know yet Hold on, let go, call me I can't decide because of everything about you that I don't know yet Because of everything about you that you can't know yet Because just everything you left behind Is burnt and dead But still love Ooh, I have to say I'm proud of you
5.
New York 02:18
Lights up as the world turns down its' brightness Pour your soul out into New York Lady with a rose and vine and sharing Her whole life with New York Oh the streets live and breathe With the lives that flicker by on the silver screen The sky's a sleeping beast Tickled by the hands of our masterpiece Your heart hangs hardly to your chest as day comes Running breathless into New York And your eyes grow eager bathed in neon posters Selling people Lives they can buy to be beautiful people With a hundred new eyes in the square every evening Watching flickers of posters of people who are coasting
6.
Colours 04:02
Colours, colours, colours Laughing, dancing right into the night Oh, so many colours of stories and eyes Rapt with surprise With fear, with doubt, with unkempt excitement they'll run Laughing, dancing into somebody's arms And, hope that it feels like you thought soft and sweet Light on your feet Ooh Waltzing away from the Known Everything's brightly lit Faces and freckles on cheeks In the night you can't place all the colours so Please, go and dance with whoever you please Friends, of friends, with beautiful smiles you can watch Laughing, dancing through hazy tainted glass Mix, dashes of green with an ocean of blue Muddle through hues For you, and you, and everyone just has to know Laughing, dancing so you can't slip away But, the world will still turn for the night to come again With colourful friends I wish that I knew what I thought Just a little bit earlier And I wish that what it has brought Would be pearls of a Life lived in full colour Maybe soon I'll dance in colour Maybe soon, under stars, under moon
7.
Somewhere there's a child with a flower on his head And his mother in his heart, and a backpack full of dread as he goes home To a place he hasn't found yet How to help a child as the flower slowly dies Cause your family's a hoax, and you've heard a pack of lies so find your home And cherish what you've got left Autumn and winter Will tear out the splinter And summer and spring will kiss it better Keep the flower alive and you'll be fine Have you seen a child with his pockets full of seeds And a garden in his head that is choking from the weeds, I have a home In a place he hasn't found yet Tell him to come quickly and to choose the route he likes 'Cause the roots put in his head, can't keep putting up a fight, We'll make a home Full of kids we haven't found yet
8.
Oh what a view, out there from your prickly brain Clouds of candyfloss That only signal torrential rain Is the sky grey so crops can grow? Or is the rain a mystery That you'll learn tommorow Oh what's there In that prickly mind of yours That could have been cherished but grew its' thorns Each one borne out of innocence I guess this is the best way Oh what's seen Through those baby blue eyes of glass That search and they scan as the world moves past So many things they shouldn't see I guess this is the best way Travel the world, for hours with your finger and thumb No long cold rainy days When you can shoot at 0's and 1's As the earth falls apart and melts in front of your eyes Your future dissapears From all the mess we've left behind Oh Can't you leave my mind alone I wanna think on my own Now I'm scared before I'm grown
9.
Summer moves like a trophy wife She's trying, she's trying like you asked her to While spring just sits on a bed of knives She's hoping, she's hiding it well enough for you They'd do anything to make you happy You better bloody act like you're happy Mmmmm Autumn comes bearing ash and thorns For parties in moonlight with the ones who belong And winter stares at you cold and worn While summer and spring stand in the sides looking Longingly at circumstances Freedom isn't found through rain dances But luck and hope, and a tiny voice in your head
10.
Your pupils are blue And your irises green Your hair might be ginger, or chestnut, or golden, or anything in between You sing like the devil And you dance like a god We could be in heaven, or hell, pick a subset and do what you want And I think there's a photo somewhere Where you're hugging a redwood and your arms don't reach halfway round the sides I'd quite like to go there Where there's photos and redwoods and time You said I used to know you And it's stored like a slideshow in my mind A kid in a hoodie, and dance shoes and pigtails, with the same infectious smile And you're just as amazing So I don't care who's around We'll be ten minutes late, to a class in my dreams that I've found They say that you can't make up faces when you sleep So you have to be real and those eyes are quite something So why waste your time singing songs back to me When you kinda make me feel like I'm everything and nothing But I'd buy you a redwood for your birthday if you'll stick around What's your name and your birthday, here's ten feet of ground So show me your photos And sing me a song It doesn't have to be good, just to drag all the time with you along 'Cause when you're gone I'll be lonely And it won't have been enough 'Cause you're amazing, and I'm dreaming, and when you leave then I'll have to wake up
11.
Interlude 00:41
12.
Years 02:43
In a couple years I won't be the same My face will have changed and I'll act kinda different isn't it strange That myself might be waiting a few years away Who are, you I, don't know If I'm supposed to look forward to you Who cares, you'll come, soon and Maybe I won't notice I'll be happy enough I have too much hope for what it is like Will it turn out right or will I be left waiting for something despite Being right where I wanted and fed up with life I hope not I hope not Is that good enough?
13.
The Credits 03:19
There it is The sun, the moon, the stars And everything in between With a bottle or a book as a souvenir To show the world where you've been 'Cause you gotta have a past That's the way it's gonna be There's a box full of junk in the back Pick something and leave We're at the end of the credits now And we've hopefully got something to show We've stumbled through our scenes Like angry, broken teens Now we're adults 'cause we've grown Or something like that You can end it now With a song so you can leave on a high 'Cause god forbid you see What happens after they all leave When we're adults for a while There's the names Surprise nothing is real We've been acting this whole time And we all go through our methods to convince the world That we're actually good at lying So the story's told And we're hoping you don't mind But there's a box full of junk called the plot And we've got a character to write We're at the end of the credits now And we're hoping it does well 'Cause there's people to be paid And careers to be made And another film to sell That's just the same but in a Different town 'Cause what's the point of being new Your life's already lived And you're not special 'cause you think There's a film about you There's a million other people Who thought every single thought And you're not special, you're not different You're a teenager who's bought Into a demographic aimed to Reassure you of your faults So you're not unique You're something close After all is said and done You've got a life of your own And it may seem kinda similar to other lives you've seen Just in different clothes What's the point in that? Thinking everyone's a clone There a box full of junk and a sunset Beckoning you home

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released November 1, 2020

Written by - Erin Snape
Performed by - Erin Snape
Produced by - Gerhard Westphalen
Mixed and Mastered by - Gerhard Westphalen

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