Ghost Butterfly Ships (demo)

by The Fildenstar

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Draft GarageBand recording from 2009.

If you're looking for more, here are some links to live performances of other songs. Filmed in the dark at gigs, they are pretty bad quality but should give you an idea of what we get up to:

"When the Gods Walked Among Us" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBWxnUvGo0
"This Thing Called Night" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PS5rJ0sno
"Ghost Butterfly Ships" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4SqQuhK6k
and a close-up view of "This Thing Called Night" here: youtu.be/9c53kj3nnfo – sorry, poor sound quality, but all we've got at the moment!

lyrics

They thunder in, enormous, like waves of wind and rain
Break upon the shore and dissolve into the night
When the world is quiet and holds its breath again
When the moons are new and green and bright
Their masts are pearl-white spirals, twisting up and up
They look like living, breathing things
Luminous and intricate as if carved by hand
Gleaming strange and yellow underneath their wings

Ghost butterfly ships on Varillion Bay
Storming the shore fading away
No one will tell us where they're from
They say it's just a natural phenomenon
They say it's just a natural phenomenon

Terrifying, awesome, they rise out of the mist and steam
Roaring down towards you
Impossible, you think, that they exist outside a dream
You're screaming and your mind is blank with death
And you draw a last most beautiful most devastated breath
You draw a last most beautiful most devastated breath

When the fury hits you, like a storm of needles suddenly
When they vanish instantly and utterly
Bursting in a million bubbles over you
You realise you’ve craved them all your life and never knew
You realise you’ve craved them all your life and never knew

Ghost butterfly ships on Varillion Bay
Storming the shore fading away
No one will tell us where they’re from
They say it's just a natural phenomenon
They say it's just a natural phenomenon

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released May 13, 2012

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The Fildenstar Australia

Original songs about life in other worlds and other dimensions.

The Fildenstar is a project of Australian songwriters Kate Rowe and Ryan Morrison.

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