Name: The Beautiful Insanity
Duration: P00H05M20S
Description: Another very early live standard, the vocals this time taken from the 2015 download only version on Still Desperate.

The Beautiful Insanity

from The Very Better Of by Barabajagal

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Another very early live standard, the vocals this time taken from the 2015 download only version on Still Desperate.

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There's a thing called the beautiful insanity,
It's a test on your breath of humanity,
You hold it in too long to see if you turn blue
Because it's something you've always wanted to do.

You're not mad and you're not falling apart,
You're not trying to nurse a broken heart,
You're just a girl trying to catch the leaves,
You don't know why so you keep them in your sleeves.

There's a thing called the beautiful insanity,
It reaches out and brushes your humanity
In purples, violets all looking like gold,
Something white, something new, something black, something old.

Just look around in an ambient way,
Tuck it in a drawer and name it today.
If you don't have a drawer your head will do,
Shine it sometimes so it's forever new.

There's a thing called the beautiful insanity,
Don't get me wrong if I say it's humanity.
It's not a bad thing and you've not lost the game
Because it's perfectly normal to be beautifully insane.

credits

from The Very Better Of, released November 11, 2017
All instruments and vocals - David Cooper

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Barabajagal Dunedin, New Zealand

Barabajagal are a band who make music.

It's pretty ok stuff really.

It's rooted in psychedelia but incorporates so many genres that it doesn't really seem too definable. But it's ok with that.

Despite being a kiwi band the songwriter is actually rather English, so whenever he sings you'd be hard pressed to go "wow, those kiwis huh". Still, New Zealand-ish.

Pronounced Bah-Rabba-Jaggle. ... more

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