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Betelgeuse

from The Tigers EP by Danny Barwick

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When I was a child, my Dad used to read me to sleep with Mervyn Peake’s ‘Rhymes without Reason’. It’s a beautiful collection of illustrated poems that are simultaneously silly, serious, and full of rich images. They’re well worth reading now, even as an adult (as is everything Peake ever wrote). This song is both my version of a Rhyme without Reason, and also a testament to my obsession with outer space.

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The starlight sat within the star
It sat inside the lungs
Waiting for its time to shine
Twiddling its thumbs

It slowly wriggled out towards
The surging and the flares
Then took inside one great deep breath
And jumped off from the edge

The light it sped at the speed of light
It sped throughout the void
Dipped a toe in a mercury moon
Bounced off an asteroid

Then something distant caught its eye
For even light must rest
It set sail for a place to call home
A tiny pale blue speck

The speck it bulged with every mile
Until it filled the view
The swirling clouds and rolling seas
Of white and green and blue

But now the starlight burned inside
The starlight yearned for home
And that was waiting further down
In a garden, all alone

So as you stood in your back yard
And gazed up at the sky
The gleeful starlight hurtled down
And landed in your left eye

Your thirsty pupil drank it in
The starlight fizzled through
And crackling through your synapses
It began to become you

credits

from The Tigers EP, released March 21, 2019
Clarinet - Julien Wilson
Master - Adam Dempsey

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Danny Barwick Melbourne, Australia

Danny Barwick is a producer, singer, and songwriter from Melbourne known for his heartfelt, textural, and vividly cinematic music.

In 2019, he moved to a small coastal town in the rainforests of northern New South Wales to write his debut album, ‘Iluka.'

He has spent the last 12 months backpacking through Latin America, and is now living in New York. ... more

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