Name: Chrysalis
Duration: P00H03M02S
Description: I have come to the realisation that labels have their uses - understanding ourselves, finding support and community - but also their limits. Self-acceptance through metaphor can at times be more fulfilling

Chrysalis

from Swaddled in Gloaming by Lewis Mullen

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I have come to the realisation that labels have their uses - understanding ourselves, finding support and community - but also their limits. Self-acceptance through metaphor can at times be more fulfilling

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Facets of a sunbeam
Thought I’d seen them all
Until my re-emergence
When many more would call

And when a million fireflies
Danced around the blaze
Right then I knew my nature
Had never been a phase

I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial was spinning round

I met the dancing foxes
The otters and the bears
The wildcats and domestic
And the singers of the air

I braved an oak in rapture
With squirrel friend and owl
Decked out all in dewdrops
Sidesaddle on a bow

I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial was spinning round

The frogs bop in
The pink of the sunset
By blue pond serene
And the bonnie purple heather in between
Being seen

I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial would spin
I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial was spinning round

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from Swaddled in Gloaming, released January 3, 2023

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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK

I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own

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