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Track 6 on Daria Kulesh's debut album Eternal Child
Butterflies

This song was triggered by the tragic story of the 'Butterfly Brothers', Harry and Cody Churchill, who had Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare condition that makes skin as fragile as a butterfly's wing. As most of you know, I released it as a charity single for DEBRA, the EB charity, last summer. The song is not just about one particular condition, it's about human condition in general and how people shy away from another's misfortune as if it's contagious... How we can all be vulnerable when our carefully built cocoons of pretence and prejudice, ritual and routine, smash to tiny pieces if hit by one of life's calamities. No man is an island. Also a few of you will know that I'm an avid follower of George Martin's Game of Thrones. One of the characters, a dwarf, has, in his own words, a soft spot for "cripples, bastards and broken things". Despite appearances, I have a flaw, a crack, in me. I'm not like most people. I have always understood "damaged" people better than "normal" ones. Leonard Cohen said, "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in..."

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Butterflies
(for the Butterfly Children - see www.debra.org.uk)

Most of us are wearing thick skins to hide
the fragile beauty sealed inside
We are caterpillars building our cocoons...
but one day we'll have to fly, bursting into butterflies... too soon
There are some among us, no armour or disguise
their skin as brittle as the wings of butterflies
To the world outside them no immunity
Such fragile beauty a pain to see
So squeamish caterpillars hide in their cocoons...
While brittle butterflies
break their wings on ignorance... too soon
So think of those less hardened and don't avert your eyes
from fragile beauty of butterflies
We may feel protected In our safe cocoons...
but one day we'll have to fly, bursting into butterflies... too soon

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from Eternal Child - Daria Kulesh, released January 31, 2015

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