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Johnny Foreigner – Emily and Alex (2024) | Track profile | Dork

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Johnny Foreigner
How To Be Hopeful
Emily and Alex

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Johnny Foreigner

Emily and Alex

Release date: 12th September 2024

From How To Be Hopeful

Track 11

4:00

Alternative Music

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About This Track

"Emily and Alex" is a track by Johnny Foreigner, from the album How To Be Hopeful, released 12th September 2024. The track is 4:00 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Johnny Foreigner.

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Lyrics

Emily and Alex

There are nights you can't tell between the sea and skyline
Screaming 'Fuck this timeline' from the shore
There are days when the waves won't wash
Those coastal greys away

I was sat throwing stones
Counting returning ripples
Chaining consequences back to me
A million trickling estuaries
A million galaxies

And I can't calculate the odds we beat
More than all the stones that make the beach
A million possibilities
A million Alexs and Emilys

Let us call amnesty on every sunken memory
A million ripples make a wave tonight
I would say all those awkward anxious choices
Did us right

And I can't calculate the odds we beat
More than all the waves that make the sea
A million possibilities
A million Alexs and Emilys alive

I can't calculate the odds we beat
More than all the cells inside of me
A million possibilities
A million Alexs and Emilys

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Track details

From How To Be Hopeful

4:002024

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Album

How To Be Hopeful

Johnny Foreigner

13th September 2024

Track number

11

Release year

2024

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(fireworks, full blossom)The Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
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(speak of it and curse it)The Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
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All of the ChordsThe Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
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All Of The ColoursThe Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
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If you ain't at the table, yr on the menuThe Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
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Orc DamageThe Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
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