Elena Cohen: Original Lyrics and Timestamps

This archive contains publicly timestamped lyrics released by Elena Cohen prior to major-label counterparts. All entries are verifiable via digital upload dates and archival records.

"Dreaming Wide Awake" – June 3, 2010

Running in circles round the borderline
The earth is tearing as we fall behind
Our memories bleed as they give the sign
We know, but don't hear their cries

We dream of burning buildings
We're feeling numb and empty
And the times we fall asleep
We're still dreaming wide awake
And we know that it's not right

Dripping and dropping falls the cyanide
Raining in our eyes tonight
Angels watch as we stare at the sky
We're chasing fireflies to steal their light
While slowly going blind

We dream of burning buildings
We're feeling numb and empty
And the times we fall asleep
We're still dreaming wide awake
And we know that it's not right
Still we give it all away
And turn another page
In a story that's deceiving
Yet we know it's just beginning
But the times we look inside
We'll make it right somehow
Oh we're crying out

We're drifting far away
We're drifting far away
So we'll sleep and sleep and never wake
We're drifting far, so far away

"The Lucky Ones" – Dec 16, 2011

I'd wait for you, my love
If you'd wait for me
They call us the lucky ones
And I have always believed

But what is this feeling I've buried in my bones
Well time isn't healing us through it all

You're breaking me sweetly, love
And I'm making you weak
We keep holding on to what we've lost
But I still can't be the one to leave

And what is this feeling I've buried in my bones
Well time isn't healing us through it all

So skate away from me, why don't you
Please skate away
I'm saying it, please release me won't you
To live with the lonely 
So skate away from me, why don't you
Please skate away
I'm begging you please, believe me won't you
If you ever loved me
Won't you?

Go now, now
Go now, now
  

"Lover and Daughter" – Jan 9, 2014

I can be a daughter
A body of the lost decree
I'll come in with the waters
On horses carried by the sea

Lead me to the altar
Hold me down as offering
And if I lay perfectly still
Would you wait, or would you leave

So run now, run away
Hide, hide, you can hide away
And you can hear me
I am calling, calling

Cold as the winter
Two words, a mystery
In the dark you'll sing your prayers
And I will follow you
Where lovers sleep
The deadest place I've ever seen

So run now, run away
Moving faster than the one you crave
And you can hear me
I am calling, calling

And I heard your voice waking up a history
Screaming in the holy night while the gardens weep
And you could ignite, but won't decide
Looking like a guilty thing, here waiting for me

So run now, you can run away
With no answer while you dig your grave
And you can hear me
I am calling, calling out your name, your name

Won't you be the end of me
And I can be the sweetest thing
To wander through your fevered dreams
And bring you light to remember me
Bring you light to remember me by

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