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Caught Now in a Butterfly Swarm

by Ella Joyce Buckley

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Single from upcoming album "The Mystery is How" 2020

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CAUGHT NOW IN A BUTTERFLY SWARM

If there is an open door
I have left food out for the animals
Before I compromise
You are always on my mind
Feeding the captives with sugar
Hiding from yourself
Hardly worn

Caught Now in a Butterfly Swarm
Gambling in the bright sun
Plumbing new lows

At the executioner's door
Where i drove myself to hell
And found out
It was incredibly sorry
With the lights on
Desperately floodlit with prayer

Even when I hand it over
I hardly move
I feel like the windows
Believing in escape
Into the water, too

You only really want to know the rules I've had to uphold
As if it means anything anymore
In the trees, in the water, it's in the walls
And this part of the war has been my life-source

It was not the joy
It was not the joy in life that killed me

If you've starved
If you've even stopped your own heart
After you gave what did not get to the right place
Because you lose
And you lose

I am slow from the slaking of a human need
From the blackness of a snake-hole
Fireworks careful stored and despite my health
It is not the joy
It is not the joy in life that kills me

You've only ever really known the way I've worn my clothes
By the ones I've owned, or the ones I've tried on.

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released April 14, 2020
Ella Joyce Buckley - Vocals, Piano, Guitars, Effects & Synthesized Instrumentation.
Suki Antonia (Sgt.Suki) - Violin
Gene Kierman - French Horn
Helen Westcott - Bass Guitar

Written and Produced by Ella Joyce Buckley
Engineered and mixed by Ella Joyce Buckley with Dirk Hugo
Final mix and master by Dirk Hugo

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