Name: Mockingbird
Duration: P00H05M14S
Description: "Mockingbird" is, most simply, a love song. Starting at the first meeting or glance and falling deeper in love while recalling the darkness in the object of love. In another sense it a plea to another saying “Remember how beautiful it is when we are together, how happy and hopeful it is when we are together. Please, don’t forget.”

Mockingbird

from Hymns For The Dying by Matthew Paul Butler

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"Mockingbird" is, most simply, a love song. Starting at the first meeting or glance and falling deeper in love while recalling the darkness in the object of love. In another sense it a plea to another saying “Remember how beautiful it is when we are together, how happy and hopeful it is when we are together. Please, don’t forget.”

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Oh, mockingbird
You’re the heart for me
While we were wasted
Merely saving hope
And I was drowning
In your darkened seas
And all your friends at the bars
They look like ghosts

For unemployed laborers
In their sweaty trees
The lingering smell of lilacs
In her auburn hair
Although feigned resistance
Which I tried to hide
Til at long last you retire

Oh my lover
If ever you was mine
How happy the seasons
When our hearts align
Oh the joy and the difference
That is in your eyes
How happy the seasons
When our hearts align

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from Hymns For The Dying, released November 25, 2019

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Matthew Paul Butler Durham, North Carolina

Matthew Paul Butler's music is equal parts delicacy and anarchy — indie neo-folk soul rock — emotional and musical nuance and egress.

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