Name: Snowflake
Duration: P00H04M33S
Description: composed, performed and produced by Chris North and Steve Swales

Snowflake

from Back to the Cloud (2018) by the Allotropes

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composed, performed and produced by Chris North and Steve Swales

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Snowflake by the Allotropes (North,Swales)

If you stare into someone's mirror
for long enough
you forget you're on the other side
look behind you
Well it's tough things change
pretty snowflake

We'll see what you
can make
my snowflake
Enjoy the ride -
there's no brake
perhaps you'll be a special lucky snowflake
as you melt on the butterfly's wings

Enjoy the ride
Snowblind Snowflake
perhaps you're special
and won't break,
Snowflake
- or will you melt
on the butterfly's wing?

So confused, just
worry about the weather
closer to home and besides
you make it too cold for butterflies
to flutter by
frigid snowflake

Stay awake or you'll miss your insect aeroplane
flapping its wings
on the complex plane
changing things
or perhaps it just dreamt you?
Wrong butterfly again

(words by Steve Swales)

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from Back to the Cloud (2018), released October 18, 2018
(Chris North, Steve Swales)

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formed 1978, UK

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