Name: Papillon
Duration: P00H03M38S
Description: Recorded at Babylon Berlin in September 2021, on their grand piano and with a live audience. I wrote most of this song over the first few months of the pandemic, when all the stages were gone. With the images from Bergamo on my mind I was watching that Steve McQueen movie, tinkering on the piano, thinking "We're really not used to this kind of disruption here in the West, time to grow up?"

Papillon

by The Night Gardener

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Recorded at Babylon Berlin in September 2021, on their grand piano and with a live audience. I wrote most of this song over the first few months of the pandemic, when all the stages were gone. With the images from Bergamo on my mind I was watching that Steve McQueen movie, tinkering on the piano, thinking "We're really not used to this kind of disruption here in the West, time to grow up?"

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I'm painting my wall
In thick black and red
Here in my cave
Echoes a song

I'm carving my voice
My soul into stone
The dream never gone
Like old Papillon

Thought of becoming a builder
Thought of becoming a monk
Failed to notice that all becoming
Had been undone

Imagined myself as a healer
Imagined myself as a ghost
Imagined Lennon alive
Imagined we met in our youth

Youth's over now
Death has returned to our tales
Oh sit with me
And weep for all that we lost

Youth's over now
Death has returned to our tales
Oh sit with me
And weep for all that we lost

Here I am painting my wall
In thick black and red
Here in my cave
Echoes your song

I'm carving my voice
My soul into stone
The dream never gone
Like old Papillon

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released October 6, 2023

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The Night Gardener Berlin, Germany

The Night Gardener is a singer-songwriter who plays guitar and piano. Having hitchhiked and busked all across Europe in his twenties, he is now busy making records in Berlin, Germany.

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