Emilie Autumn - Across The Sky

What is your substance?
Whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since everyone, have everyone, one shade
And you, but one, can every shadow lend

See beyond the moment
Think beyond the day
Hear the word
My voice will not be cast away
Fatalistic fortune
Ever near the end
Love goes on
But time does not return again

Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come true

Fear no more the midnight
Fear no more the sea
Close your eyes, regret nothing
You're safe with me
Look into the shadows
Step into the mist
Search your land but doubt never
I still exist

Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come
Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come true

Ask yourself: is this all there is?
Take no answer but the one you find
I have put my faith in aberrations of your kind
But even if you're in my mind

Across the sky
I will come to you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come
(Across the sky)
Should we hear the silence?
Should we hear the noise?
(I will come for you)
I don't need this blind acceptance
I have made my choice
(If you ask me to)
(Demystify)
Light lives in the darkness
Beauty lives in pain
(Your uncommon dreams)
In destruction we may lose ourselves
But still I will remain
(Stranger things have come true)
Across the sky
Across the sky

See beyond the moment
Think beyond the day
Hear the word
Hear the word
Hear the word
Hear the word

Emilie Autumn Liddell was born in Malibu, California in 1979. She began learning the violin at the age of four and left regular school five years later with the goal of becoming a world-class violinist. Progressing to writing her own music, she studied under various teachers and went to Indiana University, which she left over issues regarding the relationship between classical music and her appearance. She eventually progressed on her own becoming an exceptional songwriter, poet, singer, and violinist.

Through her own independent label "Traitor Records", Emilie Autumn debuted with her classical album On a Day "Music for Violin & Continuo", followed by the release in 2003 of her supernaturally themed album "Enchant". As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, she uses her experiences as a source of inspiration for her work. She was admitted to a psychiatric ward at a Los Angeles hospital after attempting suicide in 2004. Upon her release, she had her cell block number tattooed on her right arm as a way of remembering what happened to her. in 2010 she penned her autobiographical novel, "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls", which contains many of her real-life diary entries from that stage of her life.

Emilie Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backing band The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque.