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Whatever You Do

from Listen by Emanuel and the Fear

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lyrics

I want to be happy, but all my smiling memories are you and your eyes.
And they make me wanto get up and run,
like the farther I'm away from you the better off I'll be.

Where I can erase you and feel like I used to.
Oh where did that happy little boy with the afro go?
They say he gave this girl too much,
that when she left he forgot how to love.

You think that you know me.
Don't act like you do.
You wanto be happy.
I'm saying you could.
You think that you know me.
Don't act like it's you who's in control when it's you who's losing it.

Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake
don't throw your heart away without it you can only lose.
Whatever you do, don't ruin everything
if you wanto be happy.

I just had this nightmare, I was out of control
they had me tied up with my face against the ground
and there was nothing I could do.
And in that moment, well my mind it turned to you
and to a time when I was happy
like my thoughts could somehow change what was the truth. 
And lift me from my shackles, back to you in my bed lying awake just talking.
But when my mind breaks through
and when I turn to reach for you to tell you all about what happened there
and nobody's next to me and I rub my eyes
like i'm surprised by what I know to be the truth.

Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake
don't throw your heart away without it you can only lose.
Whatever you do, don't ruin everything
if you wanto be happy.

credits

from Listen, released March 9, 2010
Music and Lyrics – Emanuel Ayvas

Trumpet – Chris Coletti
Trombone- David Nelson
Cello – Brian Sanders
Flute – Nic Cowles
Violin – Tom Swafford
Background Vocals – Elizabeth Hanley, Dallin Applebaum
Drum Set – Jeff Gretz
Drum Programming – Jamin Gilbert
Electric Guitar – Dan Tirer
Vocals, Piano, Electric Bass, Synthesizers – Emanuel Ayvas

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