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mike On Aug 11, 2012

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by psawyer

13y ago

Beautiful song...

What Emeli said about the song (in an interview for thequietus.com/johndoran):

" Breaking The Law’ is a song I wrote for my sister. When I was a child I was very serious and I had very specific rules for specific situations about how I would act and behave. But for her there’s nothing like that. I would break any of those laws that I had made for myself and even if it was something illegal, if something needed to be done for her, it would get done. "

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