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Ellise

911

Release date: 12th October 2018

From Can You Keep a Secret?
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About This Track

Ellise opens her debut extended play with a distress call. '911' frames a relationship as a slow-motion crisis: a partner who enjoys inflicting pain, who promises comfort he will not deliver, who leaves her feeling less alive the longer she stays. The song builds its emergency around that central betrayal, the gap between what he says and what he does. The production sits somewhere between pop and alternative R&B, spare enough to let the vocal sit exposed. Ellise adopts the voice of someone in acute emotional distress, caught between the need to escape and the fear of what that escape might cost. She sings of medication, of voices, of a choice between losing him or losing her mind. The song treats that desperation with directness rather than melodrama, the repetition of the chorus working as both plea and resignation.

"911" is a track by Ellise, from the album Can You Keep a Secret?, released 12th October 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ellise

Ellise

Lyrics

911

[Intro]

911, what's your emergency?

[Verse 1]

Don’t think I can take it

With every drama, a piece of me dies

Like some kind of sadist

I think that he likes to see the pain in my eyes

He knows that I'm lovesick

He kissed me and promised I will be alright

We both know it's bullshit

The longer I’m with him the less I'm alive

[Pre-Chorus]

Doctors on the other line

'Cause he's not coming home tonight

And I just took my very last pill

Need something to numb the pain

Demons knocking on my brain

I think they're coming in for the kill

[Chorus]

911, I need someone

My baby plays me like a game

I'm not having fun

911, tell him he's won

My heart is always aching

And I gotta be done

'Cause I, I, I gotta lose my guy

Or I, I’m, I’m gonna lose my mind

[Verse 2]

You must think that I'm crazy

Well, he does too, so I guess that makes three

Need someone to save me

I’d really appreciate if you'd intervene

[Pre-Chorus]

Doctors on the other line

'Cause he's not coming home tonight

Can’t seem to find my bottle of pills

Swear to God I'm not insane

The voices only say his name

When I'm starting to think that they're real

(Ah!)

[Chorus]

911, I need someone (Need someone)

My baby plays me like a game

I'm not having fun

911, tell him he's won

My heart is always aching

And I gotta be done cause (Gotta be, gotta be done)

I, I, I gotta lose my guy

Or I, I'm, I'm gonna lose my mind

[Outro]

911, I need someone (Need someone)

My baby plays me like a game

I'm not having fun (Not having fun)

911, tell him he's won

My heart is always aching

And I gotta be done (Gotta be, gotta be done)

I, I, I gotta lose my guy

Or I, I'm, I'm gonna lose my mind

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2018
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    Credits

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    Writer
    Ellise, Holly Harding
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    Andre Davidson, Sean Davidson
    Producer
    The Monarch
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