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Papillon is the first single from the album ‘In This Light and on This Evening’. The song is about the struggle for freedom.
The title is both the French word for ‘Butterfly’, and refers to French writer Henri Charrière who escaped from prison.
Charrière was convicted in 1931 to a life in prison a...
[Verse 1]
Make our escape
You're my own papillon
The world turns too fast
Feel love before it's gone
It kicks like a sleep twitch
My papillon, feel love when it's shone
[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch
[Chorus]
Darling
Just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling
You're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me
We'll find our own way home somehow
[Verse 2]
No sense of doubt
Or what you could achieve
Well I've found you out
I've seen the life you wish to leave
But when it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke
Choke on the air you try to breathe
[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch
[Chorus]
Darling
Now just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling
You're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me, dear
We'll find our own way home somehow
How, how?
[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch
It kicks like a sleep twitch
[Chorus]
Darling
Just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling
Oh, you're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me, dear
We'll find our own way home somehow
[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch
[Outro]
It kicks like a sleep twitch
Papillon was written by Tom Smith & Chris Urbanowicz & Russell Leetch & Edward Lay.
Papillon was produced by Flood.