used to always orchestrate it
to run into you, to run into you
emotion’s somethin’ crazy, ain’t it?
honey, we can’t disprove what it makes us do
you're the conductor, i'm the strings
to your every move resonating
first chair in your grand symphony,
last one facing the melody
of how I wanted you ; oh how I wanted you
hating myself for twisting, turning
losing out to every yearning
trying to be something you might want
every note in every second,
every beat in every measure
playing to an audience long gone
so I'm leaving your orchestra
too many years I stayed in orbit
always circling, circling
around a magic false and jaded
oh such a brilliant sun, hard as I tried to run
you're the conductor, i'm the strings
to your every move resonating
hating myself for twisting, turning
losing out to every yearning
trying to be something you might want
every note in every second,
every beat in every measure
playing to an audience long gone
so i'm leaving your orchestra
oh i'm leaving your orchestra
o wait - play back the tape, go all the way
now notice in the opening scene,
who's making moves from the very beginning
was you who spotted me,
set up the board, every chess piece
and lured me into your fantasy
yeah you . . .
you, ya used to always orchestrate it
you, used to always ( used to always )
and i hated myself for twisting, turning
losing out to every yearning
trying to be something you might want
every note in every second,
every beat in every measure
playing to an audience long gone
so i'm leaving your orchestra
oh, i'm leaving your orchestra ~
o i gotta leave, i gotta leave
i got to leave
Johanna Samuels writes introspective and empathetic songs that explore authenticity with lovely, low-key pop melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable May 20, 2021
Sweetly melancholy bedroom pop is rarely as actually vulnerable and personal as it is in this Australian artist's hands. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 21, 2018