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Donegal

by Violet Hirst

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1.
Oh Honey 03:53
My heart is crying for this song Oh honey, where are you going? What are you reading? Oh honey, where are our poems? Where’s the desire? Will we ever return, only reap the return To summer, serenaded ‘til morning Oh honey These wounds quiet the room
2.
Brave Me 05:28
if I could write you, know that I’d write laiden with beauty, all justified wouldn’t you deny only to feel in time never enough but go on and brave me brave me breath-take me go on and if I could write you, know that I’d write you’ll kill me with beauty, so justified but wouldn’t you deny, always they decline only to feel it in due time it’s never enough but go on and brave me brave me breath-take me go on and brave me brave me breath-take all of me why don’t you break me why don’t you not much to say these days
3.
Please, don’t, leave, yet Be, lieve, in Us, trust, your, heart Now is only Half there, half Thought, felt, figured, out out Fear me like I bleed out on Your face, dark, dark Fear me, stark, stark Held by myself today Don’t let them take All that you give away Won’t let them take Honey your capable of everything Honey your capable of everything Honey! Your capable of everything Everything
4.
She wants to be aligned To give herself away You’ve seen it done before Solving all of life’s mundane’s She wants to be alone Seek comfort with the rain But I’m feeling mighty fine, circling around the drain I know you don’t care too much And darling youth is on your side Why would you worry what’s sat at the finish line She wants to be aligned And lose herself today But then again afraid of those who play the cushion game She wants to be alone To build a fort to keep her safe But spooning with your friends at 40 doesn’t seem to be the thing I know you don’t care too much But dancing on your own gets rough When you don’t want to talk to strangers you just wanna drop it hot I know you don’t care too much But singing by yourself gets dull When you already feel pathetic and there’s a harmonic lull I know you don’t care too much And darling youth is on your side Why would you worry Who could hold you through the night I know you don’t care too much Finding alternate ways to pray But it doesn’t stop here This is only the beginning Hold on like it’s the last time I think this is the last It’s the last.
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6.
I’ve been so restless I’m tearing up the walls, and tripping on the pages Configured my head in what doesn’t exist She doesn’t exist Can’t everything ever dissolve? Convinced I’m free But console me in familiarity I’m holding onto someone who doesn’t exist She doesn’t exist no Can’t everything ever dissolve Into water with my salt Maybe if i pressed more heat in my skin I could knead out some of these kinks I think I know your eyes by now I think they see me how I wish I’d see myself Still you’ll take my hands and fill ‘em with doubt, please! I’m struggling for balance with one foot in my mouth Can’t everything ever dissolve (into water with my salt) Would you be hollow like me, empty, colder like me unconditional like me So distant like me, and worried like me But woman like me Would you like me
7.
Please write home Don’t wait long Surely, you’ve noticed I have been waiting in the wings for you Please write home Don’t make me wonder it’s so This uncertainty we breed Is written in you far too deep I have been waiting in the wings for you I don’t want to forget my name As easy as it is to trace I have been waiting in the wings for you I can feel you in the summer breeze I have been waiting in the wings for you And I can feel you taking over me I can feel you like the summer heat upon my knees And I can feel you, i can feel you I don’t want to forget my name Please write home Don’t wait too long Surely you’ve noticed it’s true I have been waiting in the wings for you I have been waiting in the wings for you I have been waiting in the wings for you
8.
A bit like an audience These passengers salute you They sing your song, applaud your delusion In the cafe, it hangs in the air You look up from your book and you write of this illusion like Everyone looks, they see you tripping over yourself Everyone is eagle-eyed and you were designed to fly but you can’t Everyone knows every mistake you made But no one cares, until you say sorry A bit like an apartment Where your keys used to work Where kids have grown up to see much better than you They are the audience you play to They pick up your keys when you lose them Because Everyone looks weary of what you do to yourself They sing your hooks and knock your books off your table Everyone knows every mistake you made But no one cares, until you say sorry Everyone knows every mistake you made Everyone knows mistake you made Everyone knows every mistake you made But no one cares, until you say sorry
9.
Your Dreams 03:36
I heard your new song, it sounds like you’ve been crying I cried too waiting for my tea to brew It was almost raining, almost cold enough to call you You’re so particular I, every letter, I Never not dotted no meaning dishonest, I hope to see you dressed in dream dresses Your best is yet to come I’ve known it all along Who do you see in your dreams Who do you see in your dreams And I was sure that there was nothing left to dream of No thought path to ponder No good thing to ruin violet Am I grieving or am I old enough to call you To call you Who do you see in your dreams Who do you see in your dreams Your dreams go on without me Your dreams go on Who do you see in your dreams
10.
How do we come to know this Trust in our minds that they don’t like Who do you see when I call Is she still real Tell me what can you feel Losing days as if they’re holy Counting sleep as if I’m dreaming Can’t believe I found her here still Walking with no feet no reveal I’m counting days as if they’re holy I’m losing sleep as if I’m dreamin' Can’t believe I found her here still Walking with no feet no reveal I’m counting days as if they’re holy I’m losing sleep

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Violet Hirst is a singer-songwriter based in Tāmaki Makaurau via Tāhuna, who's music is described as nostalgic and hypnotic. Donegal was produced and recorded in Cromwell, Central Otago '22 by De Stevens (in-house Roundhead engineer). It is a collection of songs that sit as a love-letter to Hirst's time spent between Pōneke and Te Waipounamu.

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released August 7, 2023

All songs written and performed by Violet Hirst, except “Everyone Knows” written by Reuben Scott.
Recorded and Produced by De Stevens in Cromwell, Central Otago in January 2022.
Mastered by Bevan Smith in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
All songs played by Violet Hirst, De Stevens and Reuben Scott, except “Your Dreams” featuring viola by Lauren Jack.

Made with the help of CreativeNZ.

Thank you De, Reuben, Madeleine, Kane, Mitchell, Julie, Lara, Jacinta, Mark and Zoe.

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