The Beautiful Insanity

from An Effusive Allusion by Barabajagal

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A spacey folk based song, often played live, inspired by a very strong girl who surprised me with a moment of weakness.

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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 and see if you turn blue
Because its 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 they're kept 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 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.

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from An Effusive Allusion, released November 1, 2013
David Cooper - All instruments and Co-producer
Fraser Thomson - Co-producer

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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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