Blood and Butter
Caroline Polachek * Track #8 On Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
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Welcome to My IslandCaroline Polachek
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Pretty in PossibleCaroline Polachek
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Bunny Is a RiderCaroline Polachek
- #4
SunsetCaroline Polachek
- #5
Crude Drawing of an AngelCaroline Polachek
- #6
I BelieveCaroline Polachek
- #7
Fly to YouCaroline Polachek & Grimes & Dido
- #8Blood and Butter
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Hopedrunk EveraskingCaroline Polachek
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Butterfly NetCaroline Polachek
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SmokeCaroline Polachek
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BillionsCaroline Polachek
Blood and Butter by Caroline Polachek
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Caroline PolachekAbout
“Blood and Butter” was first mentioned by Caroline on January 13, 2023 in an interview with The Guardian, and then announced as the fifth single and released on January 31, 2023.
In the music video for her last single “Welcome To My Island,” Caroline vaguely reveals the existence of this track – a...
Blood and Butter Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Look at you in denim and bows
I know the mode, the mode is lethal
Say you wanna show me a place
The place is here, the here is inside you
Where did you come from, you?
[Verse 2]
Pretty with the critical mass
Your body has the body power
Lying at the foot of a linden
In a navel ring inventing June
Where did you come from, you?
[Pre-Chorus]
And what I want is
To walk beside you
Needing nothing
But the sun that's in our eyes
Paint the picture
In blood and butter
Holy water
Fire in the sky
[Chorus]
Lеt me dive
Through your face
To thе sweetest kind of pain
Call you up
Nothing to say
No, I don't need no entertaining
When the world
Is a bed
Give me green and ribbon red
Oh, I get
Closer than your new tattoo
[Verse 3]
Look at you all mythicalogical
And Wikipediated
Look how I forget who I was
Before I was the way I am with you
Where did you come from, you?
[Pre-Chorus]
And what I want is
To walk beside you
Needing nothing
But the sun that's in our eyes
Paint the picture
In blood and butter
Holy water
Fire in the sky
[Chorus]
Let me dive
Through your face
To the sweetest kind of pain
Call you up
Nothin' to say
No, I don't need no entertaining
When the world
Is a bed
Give me green and ribbon red
Oh, I get
Closer than your new tattoo
[Post-Chorus]
Closer than your
Blood and Butter Q&A
Who wrote Blood and Butter's ?
Blood and Butter was written by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.
Who produced Blood and Butter's ?
Blood and Butter was produced by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.
When did Caroline Polachek release Blood and Butter?
Caroline Polachek released Blood and Butter on Tue Jan 31 2023.
What else has the artist said about the song?
In an interview with The Guardian, Polacheck described “Blood and Butter” as being about “spiralling upward”. She continued:
The upward spiral is maybe the closest thing we can experience to heaven – a kind of heaven on Earth, which we feel in moments of total selflessness and falling in love. They...
What did Caroline Polachek say about "Blood and Butter"?
I think this string of three songs—“I believe,” “Fly To You” and “Blood and Butter”—as the sweet suite, it’s sweet warm core ofthe album where you can just sail. I discovered bagpipe player Brighde Chaimbeul’s album The Reeling in the summer of 2022, and listened to it lots while traveling to and fr...
What has Caroline said about the song's artwork?
In the single artwork, I’m tied up in ribbons as a nod to the tradition of Maypole dance. The tree above my head in the photo is a branch of a Linden tree, which is also included in the lyrics, but as its own connotations.
—via Spotify Storyline
What have the artists said about the song?
This was written as a bit of a challenge between me and Danny L Harle where we tried to contain an entire song to two chords, which of course we do fail at, but only just. It’s a pastoral, it’s a psychedelic folk song. It imagines itself set in England in the summer, in June. It’s also a love letter...
Live Performance
Caroline performing “Blood and Butter” on KEXP