Butterfly Net

Caroline Polachek * Track #10 On Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

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Album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

ALBUM

Caroline Polachek

2023

Butterfly Net by Caroline Polachek

Release Date

Tue Feb 14 2023

About

This song was first premiered on BBC Radio Music 6 on February 6th 2023, where Caroline performed a few songs from her upcoming album “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” Including “Blood And Butter”, “Welcome To My Island”, and this unreleased song, “Butterfly Net”.

Butterfly Net Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Earth went silent
London fell asleep
She dreamed of winter
Where you appeared to me
Perfect timing as new petals in November
A tender creature
A fever
Disarming, fluorescent

[Chorus]
There you were
With your mirror
Shining the world all over me
There I was
With my butterfly net
Trying to catch your light

[Verse 2]
I collected
Stupid ashes
So that after you'd gone
I could hold onto something
But you stayed unwavering
Through every false goodbye
Unsubsiding
Pining
For now and for never

[Chorus]
There you were
With your mirror
Shining the world all over me
There I was
With my butterfly net
Trying to catch your light

[Bridge]
Oh, if only
The umbrella of the sky
Could wrap us up and up
That's where I'd zoom in close
Dilated as your eyes
Until then, I'll keep it brief

[Verse 3]
Faithful inertia
Her bullet doesn't slow
It seeks and finds me
How far it goes
Heaven help me
Take this bag of wings
And drown it in the Thames
And wake tomorrow
Hollow
Hardly forgetting

[Chorus]
There you were
There I was
With my butterfly net
Trying to catch your light

Butterfly Net Q&A

Who wrote Butterfly Net's ?

Butterfly Net was written by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.

Who produced Butterfly Net's ?

Butterfly Net was produced by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.

When did Caroline Polachek release Butterfly Net?

Caroline Polachek released Butterfly Net on Tue Feb 14 2023.

What did Caroline Polachek say about "Butterfly Net"?

This song started out as an experiment with Danny L Harle to see if we could combine the acoustic guitars of “Sunset” with the high drama of “I Believe.” We sometimes like to take two songs that are quite different from each other and create a new song that connects the two, which we call a link son...

What have the artists said about the song?

‘Butterfly Net’ is maybe the most narrative storyteller moment on the whole album. And also, palette-wise, deviates from the more hybrid electronic palette that we’ve been in to go fully into this 1960s drum reverb band atmosphere. I’m playing an organ solo. I was listening to a lot of ’60s Italian...