[Verse 1]
Oh, people always ask me
What it's like to love everybody
What it's like to love everybody
They ask me
I tell them, "Don't be crazy
There’s too many people around me
If I loved them all, they’d break me, you see"
[Pre-Chorus]
But if I'm being honest, it feels like
Each moment is loving at first sight
Oh, I love how your looking looks inside
Oh, I'm never changing, but in the reflection reflected in your eyes
Oh, the magic of being packaged feels amazing
[Chorus]
To be free in illusion
In an illusion of your making of me
To be free in deception
In a deception not crafted by me
So, you see
[Verse 2]
It's me that I am loving
Though not the me that's talking
The one that lives in all those other minds
Oh, how I love her dearly
She never misses a beat
She's pirouetting blithely in the sky
[Chorus]
She is free in illusion
In an illusion of your making of me
I am free in deception
In a deception protected by me
[Outro]
Oh, people always ask me
What it's like to love everybody
What it's like to love everybody
They ask me
Free was written by Nick Sanborn & Amelia Meath.
Free was produced by Sylvan Esso.
Sylvan Esso released Free on Tue Sep 22 2020.
Free was written all in one go – one of those magical moments of songwriting that happens once every hundred songs. Nick knew it was the center piece of the record the minute I showed it to him. “We should call the record Free Love.” It’s the center of the record – a song about being obscured by som...