Ireland

by Erika Severyns

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When my ex-partner and I started going out, we went to Ireland to visit his parents, and I felt safe and free for the first time in months. We started talking about moving here and having conversations about why we'd felt the need to leave our home countries in the first place. We both started to feel this need to return to our homes, to be closer to family, and to stop uprooting ourselves. 'Ireland' is about dreaming of an ideal life.

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I wonder what’s coming next
Songs are hard to make but mistakes are easy
I keep trying, I rearrange the room
I spray myself with your mum’s perfume
When I come home after a month away
I scatter shells round your Berlin ashtray
And we sit there with our legs propped up
Asking each other
How did we get here now

And the curtains flutter in the breeze
And it enters the room
We’ll be home soon
And I dream of how things will be
When we move to the country
And live in Ireland

No one told me how to know
When it’s time to stay & when it’s time to go
I keep leaving, prematurely, I suppose
But not empty-handed - I’m always armed with hope

After your parents’ flying visit, it’s so quiet and implicit
We’re not staying here for much longer, are we?
And we eat some baked Alaska and we wonder who had asked us
To prove ourselves outside our countries

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released December 15, 2023
vocals & guitar - Erika Severyns
strings & pianet - Gareth Quinn Redmond
drums - Albert Karch

written by Erika Severyns
produced & mixed by Gareth Quinn Redmond
recorded & mastered by Albert Karch

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Erika Severyns Limerick, Ireland

Erika prefers to write about the little things in life, like spilling ketchup on her jeans or buying a second toothbrush to leave at her partner's house. Her lyrics are uncomfortably honest but sharpened with the precision of a poet, and skeletal folk arrangements flow through her delicate songs with natural grace. Her folky songs will remind you of Joni Mitchell and blonde female songwriters. ... more

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