[Verse 1]
What if end was begin?
Then would men be like mothers?
And the falling of others would be like
The first leaves of flowers
[Verse 2]
What if darkness was light?
Under cover of bright
We'd stalk our prey, they can’t see in the day
It's too white
[Verse 3]
Oh, life dying out
And the oceans turn to clouds
Soggy birds raining down
From the sky
Having drowned
[Verse 4]
Oh, it's not what you think
It's a memory bank
And it's living in our mouths
So, open wide
She's coming out
What If was written by Nick Sanborn & Amelia Meath.
What If was produced by Sylvan Esso.
Sylvan Esso released What If on Fri Jul 17 2020.
On the album release video for Free Love, director DL Anderson and Meath had the following conversation.
Meath: We went one day and we brought Will and our friend Drew, who lived on the coast. And it just immediately started raining. I think I got in the ocean like once.
DL: And the wind picked up...
The minute Amelia wrote this song, we knew it had to be the first thing on the album. On a nerdy level, I loved the fact that the title of our last record was What Now, and that this record opened with a song called ‘What If.’ What Now feels like it’s coming from a place of fear and it’s reacting, w...