Ruthless (Live from White Water Tavern)

from Hello, from Planet Earth (Live from White Water Tavern) by Emily Fenton

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

RUTHLESS

I get so defensive and I want to say I’m sorry
I know it’s cliche but it’s classic case of
“It’s not you it’s me”
I put up my guard holding swords in crossed arms
Like one of my pretty playing cards
But I want to let you in to see everything
That’s lying underneath
Behind my skin

Behind my skin there’s a world within
And you are the captain of my ship
Made up of acid lakes and capillary rivers
My arteries are the depths of the ocean
A boat made of blood and bone
A song made with only two chords
And two chords alone

I’m ruthless
Ruthlessly in love
So ruthless
I’m ruthlessly in love

I get so sensitive and want you to say you’re sorry
I know it’s frustrating when you have to say that it’s not about me
I put down my guard and show you my heart
And all of my pretty, ugly parts
I want to let you in to see everything that’s lying underneath
Behind my skin

I’m ruthless
Ruthlessly in love
So ruthless
Ruthlessly in love

I start to get to thinking and feeling afraid to say that
Some days I worry that I may be better off alone
Somewhere unreachable
Up in a tower I call a throne

But I give myself to you
Human and vulnerable to man
A soft sack of malleable body
Moldable by your hands
In my colorful contrarian confusion,
I’ll give you all that I can

I’m ruthless
Ruthlessly in love
So ruthless
Ruthlessly in love

credits

from Hello, from Planet Earth (Live from White Water Tavern), released February 10, 2023

license

about

Emily Fenton Little Rock, Arkansas

Emily Fenton is a singer-songwriter from Little Rock, Arkansas.

contact / help

Contact Emily Fenton

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Emily Fenton, you may also like:

Hard Work
by Hot Left Pole

Whispery indie folk from the UK, “Hard Work” cradles soft and gentle vocal melodies in a nest of acoustic guitars. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 23, 2022
go to album
Not A Party At All
by Lambs & Wolves

Charming German indie pop with the keen melodic sensibilities and melancholic undercurrent of some of the style's best practitioners. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 26, 2021
go to album
Steady Away
by Chris Brain

The latest from the UK’s Chris Brain is a gorgeously wrought album of tender acoustic folk music. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2023
go to album
The Same Mistakes
by Hot Left Pole

Soft-as-a-whisper folk music, with spiderwebs of guitar and vocal melodies as comforting as a lullaby. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 26, 2023
go to album
Bound to Rise
by Chris Brain

Rich, pastoral folk meditations on nature and healing from the UK singer-songwriter. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2022
go to album
Phototherapy EP
by Fahim Rahman

A collection of twinkling bedroom folk-pop demos from Fahim Rahman that arcs from hushed intimacy to sweeping cinematic emotionality. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 6, 2021
go to album
The Creature That I Call Myself
by Julie Arsenault

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 21, 2015
go to album