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Laundry Song

from Like Water by Mary & The Pigeons

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Song about a lovely couple I used to know a bit.

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Laundry Song

I think of you both, when I’m pairing the socks;
how one folds into the other
and how if you were a raffle and folk were drawing lots
you’d give them all out the same number.

Your kindness is leaving the earth and the feeling is hearth
and the home is a cave.

We remember you both sketching up the hillside
the sunset blazing away
your hiking boots rotten, your hunger forgotten
in the colours and lines of the day.

Your kindness is leaving the earth and the smoke goes on
curling right up to the sky. It curls in a Y

And weeks spinning by of not hearing a word,
you were climbing in a desert of snow.
Then the one thing we heard, was a kite like a bird
flying low, to let us know

Your kindness was leaving the earth and the grieving
is hearth
and the home is a cave.
Your kindness was leaving the earth
and the smoke goes on
curling right up to the sky….

And if you were a raffle and folk were drawing lots,
you’d hand them all out the same number.
I think of you both when I’m pairing the socks.

credits

from Like Water, released March 1, 2024
Laundry Song
Mary Barnecutt - vocals/cello/harmonium/flute
Kathrine Barnecutt - viola
Leonie Curtin - violin
Aisling Ennis - Irish harp

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Mary and the Pigeons Dublin, Ireland

Mary & The Pigeons is a band run by composer and cellist Mary Barnecutt. Debut album,
Into Air, was released in 2016 to critical acclaim and the second album, Like Water, will be released March 1st 2024
Like Rain, a single will be released Feb 16th 2024 ... more

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