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Mutual Friend

from Mutual Birds by zarahruth

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Mutual Friend is the story of someone we all know - or is it? Fast, fun, guitar-slapping and folkish.

Side A1 on the double A-side 7'' limited release vinyl published by Butterfly Effect (which also contains a secret third track).

lyrics

She cuts her hands counting other people’s money;
licks her fingers for a taste of the copper and cocaine
She steps on cracks, breaks the backs of her mother
and her sister and her brother
and she’d do it all again.

She said: the moving pictures are telling my story again;
they mess up the timings, they take my beginning and ends.
They share all the lies and the rumours; I lose all my friends
Is it any wonder then, is it any wonder
that my heart beats faster
I’m a walking disaster
take a ticket, take a number, take a drink and do a runner
run away

The lamps drop glitter and the streets are never empty
And she kisses for the camera with a smile on ice
She drinks black coffee on the corner after midnight
And she doesn’t seem to hear them
till her name has been called twice

She said: they say that they love me but treat me as if I’m immune
to the pedestal height and the fall when they leave me too soon.
My life is in song but I never could carry a tune.
Is it any wonder then, any wonder
that my heart beats faster
I’m a walking disaster
take a ticket, take a number, take a drink and do a runner, is there anything that's funner? run away.

Oh I thought you knew me or something
Oh I should know better than that
Oh I let you love me for nothing
There’s something on the horizon
There’s secrets under my hat

She reads her future in the clicking of their fingers and the writing on the wall outside a private bar.
she keeps her boots on and a knife beneath the pillow and she sleeps with one eye open
but it’s focused on the stars

credits

from Mutual Birds, released October 12, 2020
Music, lyrics and artwork by Francoise Harvey
Produced by Rob Irish
Vinyl release from Butterly Effect Records

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North East-based singer-songwriter, who grew up on the Isle of Man. Story-driven folk-ish songs with lush lyrics.

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