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Emma, From The Valleys Of Her Heart

from Nothing At All by Paul Bergmann

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lyrics

She beams from the roof of my heart
Her mouth it gives words to the thought
A sense of her lives deep within

She speaks like the tides and the wind

The darkness of morning subsides
As memories of her arise
Their colors a wash of deep blue
The cloudiness sewn from bits of you

I wander, I steep in the dark
These visions of her are not stark
Nighttime it folds into dream
The image of Emma takes gleam

Powder will turn into mist
These changes will weaken my fist
Oh boredom and tiring of the days
I wake up in shadows today

Oh, where is the girl that I knew?
Wicked and wild and so blue
She walks now with someone new
Doing the things we would do

If I was made bronze and imbued
With nothing but words spoke from you
The wisdom I’d know so unfair
You couldn’t even push back my hair

Oh Emma my hands are for you
Crippled and soft and so true
But gray eyes they easily fade
And I’m just a memory now

Sunlight and storms in the haze
Los Angeles feels so unfazed
The dampedness crawls from the core
And friends that once stood at my door

If wishings fell from above
I’d love with two eyes, without glove
My heart aches, my ashes are not new
They cling with the sorrow of having only one shoe

Oh I miss her now
The trees are all broken now
If it was just right to see you
If it was the slightest I knew

So I carry, I freeze all my thoughts
Of memories clotted, forgot
The staving, the aging, the sin
The daylight worn out so thin

These women, these woes, these woos
They squash my wisdom too
Don’t push this old fuss back into me
This heaviness wallows, it creeps

Closely she walked with me
In grasses, in trees, I’d oft seen
Her heart it beat slow and with rhyme
The touching of old hands lost with time

Oh the strangeness of unsettled blood
Bent red with the oxygen’s flood
I drive it back down to the source
Where lovers I’ve had live in quarts

Waking from dream
These fantasies stripped and now seem
Naked and trite and devised
Still she is the last one on my eyes

Oh the crooner now creases his skin
With wisdom felt once deep within
He wishes for his past faults to click
The fear in his heart makes me sick

Oh where is the one that I loved?
With streams of great water, ten thousand doves
It’s only been years since I knew
It’s only been smoke that I blew

So follow this old path again
Worn thick and then thin again
If I could only bring this one back to me
Well, I couldn’t cuz she ain’t comin’ home

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from Nothing At All, released May 5, 2017

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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