A beautifully double-edged, intelligent indie-folk single referencing addiction and the longing for validation by the singer-songwriter from County Armagh, Northern Ireland from his forthcoming album, Swirling Violets, out in early 2024 on Bella Union. To explore more by Conchúr, see also the other embedded links below.
Here comes the kiss of death, you can smell it on my breath
No good comes when you walk with me
But there’s a pity after-party downstairs in the hotel lobby
There’s a single table and a funeral mixtape
I’m reckless, I can’t help it,
I just want you to tell me a story about
How I did good today, about how I fit in
Then you’ll say that she loves you for how good you did today
Sweet words from bitter water, my tongue’s a tightrope walker
Life’s iridescent but my face stays vermillion
I’m the introvert at the wedding then the gunpowder in the cannon
What matters is everyone else’s opinion
I’m selfish, I can’t help it,
I just want you to tell me a story about
How I did good today, about how I fit in
Then you’ll say that she loves you for how good you did today
And oh from this life I have rendered
You can’t be the centrefold if you ain’t self-centred
I’d be the son who rose to his setting
Who lived and died while never excelling
I’m reckless, I can’t help it,
I just want you to tell me a story about
How I did good today, about how I fit in
Then you’ll say that she loves you for how good you did today
That’s how good you did today
The forthcoming album Swirling Violets, out on Bella Union in January 2024
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