Emilie Autumn - What If

What If
Artist: Emilie Autumn
Album: Enchant (2002)

Lyrics

Here you sit on your high-backed chair
Wonder how the view is from there
I wouldn't know 'cause I like to sit
Upon the floor, yeah upon the floor
If you like we could play a game
Let's pretend that we are the same
But you will have to look much closer
Than you do, closer than you do

And I'm far too tired to stay here anymore
And I don't care what you think anyway
'Cause I think you were wrong about me
Yeah what if you were, what if you were

And what if I'm a snowstorm burning
What if I'm a world unturning
What if I'm an ocean, far too shallow, much too deep
What if I'm the kindest demon
Something you may not believe in
What if I'm a siren singing gentlemen to sleep

I know you've got it figured out
Tell me what I am all about
And I just might learn a thing or two
Hundred about you, maybe about you
I'm the end of your telescope
I don't change just to suit your vision
'Cause I am bound by a fraying rope
Around my hands, tied around my hands

And you close your eyes when I say I'm breaking free
And put your hands over both your ears
Because you cannot stand to believe I'm not
The perfect girl you thought
Well what have I got to lose

And what if I'm a weeping willow
Laughing tears upon my pillow
What if I'm a socialite who wants to be alone
What if I'm a toothless leopard
What if I'm a sheepless shepherd
What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home

You don't know me
Never will, never will
I'm outside your picture frame
And the glass is breaking now
You can't see me
Never will, never will
If you're never gonna see

What if I'm a crowded desert
Too much pain with little pleasure
What if I'm the nicest place you never want to go
What if I don't know who I am
Will that keep us both from trying
To find out and when you have
Be sure to let me know

What if I'm a snowstorm burning
What if I'm a world unturning
What if I'm an ocean, far too shallow, much too deep
What if I'm the kindest demon
Something you may not believe in
What if I'm a siren singing gentlemen to sleep
Sleep...
Sleep...

Category:

Music

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• emilie
• autumn
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• if
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• on
• screen
• and
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• enchant
• 2002

[sonicjess]

i love this picture <3

this song really hurts me... </3

for sooo many reasons...

nice job ^^

[BehindThisMusic]

@sonicjess Thanks dear!

[KatDemon4444]

This Is My Favorite Song By Her! <3

[8pink8tears8]

This song just explains my situation. My mother won't let me be who I am, and I am afraid to just do it. I know, my mother knows I want to be someone else. But she just wont except me in that way, so she wont talk about it. Im not the perfect girl she allways thought I was. And she knows that, but she just wont admit. And so, I am not who I should be

[KittieC0bain]

This song is magical, sweet and beautiful <3...

it just feel like a dream of love <3 ... u.u

[DOUGLA192]

FINALLY. I've FINALLY found one of the true artistic sides of Youtube! :D

[WizardMistress]

Oh, I had never seen that you had uploaded Emilie Autumn. I love you.

[KarasuPsyche]

this is one "Enchant" :)

[julihdisney]

This is beautifull in a way I can't explain, is so dreamy, I can totally imagine this on one of that wonderfull movies that make you float across the clouds, it just made my day...(:

[MademoiselleChose]

bon je crois qu'il est assez clair qu'elle est inspirée par Tori Amos cette madame automne.

[Spellsinger7]

Her voice jumps at times in ways that normally wouldn't seem right, but here they just... fit. Beautiful and inspiring, simply one of the best songs I've heard recently.

[alice7357]

@BehindThisMusic ..can you give me the picture [you used in this video]  , please? :)

[Treppenkind]

The melody sound so much like a tori amos song, I forgot the name of it, but it sounds amazing anyways =) I love Emilie <3