The Sisters Of Mercy - Emma (Hot Chocolate Cover)

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Available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xlbf3MxiXDXhjNeZWokhR
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/emma-john-peel-session-1984/1505372104?i=1505372558
and Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/us/track/993159502

From '' Dominion ''
Label: WEA – 248 076-0, Merciful Release – 248 076-0
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: Europe
Released: 1988

Tracklist
A1 Dominion
Producer – Andrew Eldritch, Jim Steinman, Larry Alexander
Written-By – Andrew Eldritch
A2 Untitled
Written-By – Andrew Eldritch
B1 Sandstorm
Written-By – Andrew Eldritch
B2 Emma
Producer – Hugh Jones
Written-By – Errol Brown, Tony Wilson

Notes
Tracks A1 to B1: Published by SBK Songs
Track B2: Published by RAK Publishing Ltd
Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf.

A live version of 'Emma' was also released in their unofficial released album (2xvinyl) 'Black October' in 1987.
Live at Top Rank, Brighton, UK, 22nd October 1984. Soundboard recording.

Manufactured By – Record Service GmbH
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA Records Ltd.
Copyright © – WEA Records Ltd.

Pressed By – Record Service Alsdorf
Published By – SBK Songs Ltd.
Published By – Rak Publishing Ltd.
℗ 1988 WEA Records Ltd.
© 1988 WEA Records Ltd.

© 2015 Warner Music UK Ltd
℗ 2015 Warner Music UK Ltd

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Emma, also known as Emma, Emmaline or Emmeline, is a song by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson released as a single by Hot Chocolate in 1974.
It reached No.3 in the UK charts and No.8 in the US charts.
Brown explained to The Mail on Sunday in 2009: "The story is tied to the death of my mother, aged 38.
It was almost not released, as Mickie (Most, producer) thought it too slow and morbid.
The girls in his offices at RAK Records changed his mind."

Plot

The song details the love of the (nameless) singer and a girl called Emmaline from the age of five, through a wedding at 17 until her suicide at an unspecified later date.
Emma it seems wanted to be a "movie queen" but could never find the breaks and eventually kills herself because "I just can't keep on living on dreams no more."

Cover versions

The Sisters of Mercy started performing the song live in 1985.
The studio version was released on the b-side of the 12" version of their 1988 single, "Dominion" and on the 2006 re-release of the album Floodland.

Flesh & Fell also released a version of 'Emma' in 1986.

Đorđe Marjanović released a cover of the song in Yugoslavian titled 'Ema, Emili / Emma' in 1974 in his 7'' vinyl 'A Život Teče Dalje / Ema, Emili'.
A few months later it was included in his 'A Život Teče Dalje ... ' album.

Urge Overkill recorded a version for 1990 Touch and Go Records release "Supersonic Storybook".

The Arts and Sciences included the song as a bonus track on their 2004 album Hopeful Monsters.

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Lyrics

We were together since we were five
She was so pretty
Emma was a star in everyone's eyes
And when she said she'd be a movie queen
Nobody laughed
A face like an angel
She could be anything.

Emmaline
Emma, Emmaline
I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen.
Emmaline
Emma, Emmaline
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen.

At seventeen we were wed
And I worked day and night
To earn our daily bread.
And every day Emma would go out
Searching for that play
That never, ever came her way.
You know sometimes she'd come home
So depressed
I'd hear her crying in the back room
Feel so distressed.
And I'd remember back when she was five
To the words that used to make
Emmaline come alive.
It was :
"Emma, Emmaline,
I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen.
Emmaline,
Emma, Emmaline
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen."

It was a cold and dark December night
When I opened up the bedroom door
To find her lying still and cold
Upon the bed
A love letter lying on the bedroom floor
It read :
"Darling I love you,
But I just can't keep on living on dreams no more.
I tried so very hard not to leave you alone.
But I just can't keep on trying no more."

Aaargh Emma
Oh Emmaline ...
Aaargh ...
Emma, Oh Emmaline ...
Aaargh ...
Emma, Oh Emmaline ...
Oh Emma.. Aaargh ...

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