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When I Fall

by Afro Sensei

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"When I Fall" is the first single from my second album The Joy Fantastique, a loosely conceptual album that chronicles the emotional highs and lows of a relationship. Lyrically "When I Fall" focuses on the "gray area" of those early days of attraction and infatuation, when it's unclear whether what two people have together will be, to quote the late great Aaliyah, "eternity, or just a week."

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Verse 1

Laid back/Relaxed/No sweat

Cool as an iceberg

Til you hold out your hand

And melt down my nerve

Always at one remove

Yea that’s my word

Silent not strong

When it comes to

The heart of the matter/I think this could be serious

Halfway between pragmatic and delirious

Panic pawns passion/Emotion’s a game of chess

Only human so afraid to bleed

But between you and me


Chorus

I wanna love ya’

I wanna know you

Want you to know me

But I can’t bear the thought of breaking

I can’t explain it

Can barely name it

But when I feel it

Will you be there to catch me when I fall


Verse 2

100 miles and running

So restless/So relentless

Play like Oz/But cowardly when it comes to compliments

Perfectly imperfect

Oh so headstrong/Yet so tepid

Enraptured student can you teach me

When I spiral will you reach down

Through the depths of my mind

Guide me from the nocturne

Promise that I will give all that I deserve

Affection for affection

We transcend infatuation

Only human so afraid to bleed

But between you and me


Chorus

I wanna love you

I wanna know you

Want you to know me

But I can’t bear the thought of breaking

I can’t explain it

Can barely name it

But when I feel it

Will you be there to catch me when I fall


Chorus

I wanna love you

I wanna know you

Want you to know me

But I can’t bear the thought of breaking

I can’t explain it

Can barely name it

But when I feel it

Will you be there to catch me when I fall

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released February 14, 2019

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Afro Sensei Alexandria, Louisiana

Hailing from Alexandria, Louisiana, Afro Sensei has been putting his own idiosyncratic spin on electronic music since the release of his debut EP Bougie Beats in 2014. 2016's deep house and garage-influenced After Hours LP came next. His second LP The Joy Fantastique, was released in June 2019. Sensei's third album, B.G.C. is out now. ... more

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