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about

A latecomer to the album, this song was written in the last few days before recording, inspired in part by the 'slippery' nature of the album. Whilst this is McGee's 8th studio album, it broke the rhythm of bi-yearly releases she had established and resisted two previous attempts to record it as well as having numerous changes of personnel along the way.
The 'bathtub' in verse 2 is a nod to independent film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012).

lyrics

Cast out breath in winter snow
Can’t stop all the ebb and flow
Seas retreat and water runs
Through my fingers flowing like sunlight

Can’t catch the colours in the glass
Can’t catch showers in the bathtub
Rain that comes to wash away
All of today and yesterday

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Fix you in between my thumbs
Fix you further in my sights
I can’t fix you in my dreams
You melt away like summer ice

All the journey’s give and take
All the promises we make
What is real and what is fake
Can’t pin this butterfly today

Can’t pin this butterfly today
Can’t pin this butterfly
Can’t pin this butterfly today
Can’t pin this butterfly

You’re a story I can’t hold
a quarrel with the winter cold
Arctic ice, Mojave fire
Broken strings a heart’s desire

Can’t catch catch a cold when I’m cold and damp
Can’t catch bubbles with my hands
You rise, sweet smoke and sail away
Can’t pin this butterfly today

I can’t feel you anymore
take my art and make it war
words so slick they coat the tongue
like frangipane but something’s wrong

I can’t catch colours in the glass
Weave a web of words to snare the past
You rise, sweet smoke and sail away
I can’t pin this butterfly today

credits

from The Deafening Sound of Stars, released October 11, 2019
Butterfly Pin
Kirsty McGee - voice, guitar
Phill Howley - drums
Sam Quintana - double bass
Nick Walters - trumpet
Biff Roxby - tenor & bass trombone
Anton Hunter - electric guitar, effects
Howard Jacobs - clarinet, percussion

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Kirsty McGee Manchester

A wandering maverick and spellbinding live performer with a voice that has been described as having the texture of smoke & velvet, McGee defies categorisation, to make 'hobopop' –“music of no fixed genre”. Her continuously evolving musical personality is proof that a freedom from artistic restraints can sometimes produce a unique, enthralling and original voice with a rare honesty. ... more

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