Emma Lloyd

check out my EP "Like An Echo," releasing end of April 2022!

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had a dream last night and i don’t remember any part of it except wherever i was a song was playing on the radio called “just like randy johnson.” it was about how if your love was unrequited you could tell your feelings to a bird and it would explode. just like randy johnson

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door told me of this dream, and cursed the works of my hands! please enjoy!

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i broke my heart today in arizona For a girl who was tall and so pretty, with hair like a penny she didn’t cheat she didn’t lie she didn’t smoke in bed she just got a good look at my heart and she didn’t want any

i’ll try what i have learned in arizona It’s what everyone tells me is all you can get for a cure You go down to the local zoo or find an aviary You tell all your sorrows and all your travails to a bird

hold it close to your chest so tight like you’re keeping a secret whisper all of your heart, tell it everything that you want son and then open your hands, and let it fly free, and explode into thousands of pieces of gory confetti just like randy johnson

i loved a girl like i loved arizona just as wide of a desert and totally peopled with snakes But i know that i can let my poor heart fly out of tucson Like a fastball careening unstoppably on to the plate

hold the bird to my chest so tight like i’m keeping a secret whisper all of my heart, tell it everything that i want son and then open my hands, and let it fly free, and explode into thousands of pieces of gory confetti just like randy johnson

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hello all! Thrilled to say my new EP, Like An Echo, is now available just about everywhere, including notably:

Spotify

iTunes

and, only on Bandcamp, with the demo of Reindeer In My Garden previously found here!

Hope you enjoy, and if you do, feel free to drop me a line ❤️

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I’ve covered this song Many a Time Before because it’s one of the first songs I learned to harmonize on, at my mother’s knee, as she patiently tried to show me how to do the hammer-ons at the start of the song also. This is the first time I’ve gotten to include the harmonies, though! Thank you to my friend who wishes to remain anonymous at this time for providing them.

I’ll Never Be Free was originally a country song (Tennessee Ernie Ford & Kay Starr had the first recording) but it’s been covered by a lot of vocal jazz artists as well, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan perhaps most notably. Technically there is no reason this song needs to be a duet. However, that has never stopped anyone.

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sometimes experiments work better than others. it is up to you how this one went. however please do not sleep on this song, which is by Amy Rigby and is a DEEP, SECRET FAVE. here’s her playing it live and here’s where you can buy her stuff!

you say you’d like to kill the man who broke my heart you don’t think he should be allowed to live you say you’d like to shoot the dude who screwed me up me, i’m trying so hard to forgive but here’s his address here’s his picture here’s the make and model of his car he works out till 4:30 then he hangs out at the topless bar with a girl on each arm if he should come to harm just keep it to yourself

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alright kids, this time an original! please feel free to download; if i put it up on Bandcamp in this iteration, it will be pay what you want, which of course includes, no dollars. thanks to my fiancee for the hook. <3

There is something I’ve discovered That i should’ve learned before Although I can live without you I don’t want to anymore

Didn’t mean to keep you waiting Sorry that I learn so slow You’re the rain, dear, in my garden You’re the reason that it grows

Sometimes you wake up with the wrong man Or worse, you wake up with the right one Sometimes you’re stuck inside the wrong plan Until the light runs in

There is something I should tell you Something simple, something strange I have loved you without question Thirty years and change

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This song is by Slaughter Beach, Dog (buy it here). As songwriter(s) (it’s mostly but not uniformly Jake Ewald to my understanding) one of thing SBD does really well is that thing where you’re like. This relationship is temporary. Of course. After all everyone must die. And that’s the most realistic take on what’s happening here. Also, what if it isn’t though and this is it

I picked up your guitar and put on your wings Plugged in your Plexi and tunеd up your strings Kissed off my nightmares and childish things Drew widе my mouth to sing

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sometimes you spend hours out of your day trying to record another song and then you lose the single pick that you own and you have to admit defeat! anyway here instead is a quick cover of the Decemberists B-side Raincoat Song, off Always the Bridesmaid Volume 3. perhaps one day soon i can do the A-side off this single, which is one of my favorite songs, but that is not this day. this is a day for a song that is juuuust less than 2 min long.

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“Where was yesterday’s track?” you ask? It was a live version of this song with the top of my head cropped off and, if you want this for some reason, you can find it on my YouTube channel, which also contains many better performances of things.

There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today. How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

“Angel from Montgomery” is a song in the genre of ‘person in their teens or 20s tries to imagine what it would feel like to be burnt out and old, for some reason completely nails it, hailed as a generational talent’; see also Lush Life by Billy Strayhorn. This one’s by John Prine, a country singer-songwriter who died in 2020 and wrote this when he was 24. Probably the most famous version is by Bonnie Raitt. You can buy her stuff here.

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“You Belong to Me” was written by Chilton, Price & King in the 1950s! i’ve been playing acoustic guitar for 20 years and i’m still learning the basic, like, concepts.

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hello friends! as i have done once in the past, i’m gonna try to put up a song a day either like this or on youtube! this song is by Greg Brown (buy the original record here) and I have covered it before in 2016, and have ever since wanted to track on the harmonies from the Cry Cry Cry versions, not really considering how much of a soprano I’m not. but i hope you enjoy!

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I am excited to announce that Caroline is now available on Spotify!

If you like it, consider purchasing the song on iTunes or Bandcamp!

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Reblogged now with more functional links!

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Commissions are open again! 

Would you like to have a woman with an acoustic guitar enthusiastically yell lyrics about something that you love, like a pop ballad about the Golden Lovers wrestling team or a hard rock number about the lead character of your novel? For $25, you can purchase about one minute of original music, about a verse and a chorus. I will upload the song to YouTube and send you the lyrics and chords; you will be the envy of all your friends!

You can find prior commissions here. If you are interested, email me at [email protected]!

If you’d like to commission a full-length song or if you’re interested in my services as a songwriter in a more formal capacity, please email me at the same address so we can chat about prices.

I have five slots open, so come and get them!

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I am excited to announce that Caroline is now available on Spotify!

If you like it, consider purchasing the song on iTunes or Bandcamp!

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This one's for Becca, who wrote a novel that burns within me like an eternal flame, for which this song is.

You were the first to see right through me You took my hand and damn you knew me Knew me for trouble, knew me for a sucker too But don’t forget dear I’m the one who knew you

If it’s a game the stakes are too high Our intuitions all we have to go by You’re gonna wager everything you have but pride You gotta learn that someone’s on your side

We’re not alone Though we stuck it out all of these years Thinking we had to stand on our own I’m not letting you keep facing fears Without holding my hand,

I’m ready to play and ready to win too And don’t forget darling I’m the one who knew you

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sapphicdalliances replied to your video: This is a song about what it is like to love the...

when i pressed play i was like “their basketball boys won a thing this year, so this’ll be fun,” completely forgetting to comprehend with my brain that a state has multiple sport teams for all the different sports that exist

i came in here to warn you that california also has four other baseball teams just to fuck with you but now i'm wistfully considering the timeline in which the warriors join the giants and the league has to institute a "no supernatural powers" rule

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This is a song about what it is like to love the San Francisco Giants in the year 2018, and in some ways it is absolutely the most obnoxious thing I have ever written, and I love Sares VERY much for making me do it

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This is for my good friend Irene, and for this $10 jacket I can't wear when I'm actually playing guitar because its sleeves feel like they're made out of hardened concrete.