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
I`d work 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 :
`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.`
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.
I just can`t keep on trying no more.`