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Butterfly Trapped in a Phone Booth

by Samm Bennett - Polarity Records

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Hello friends, Samm Bennett here. Back in 2011, I stepped into a phone booth in Tokyo (yes, I was a mobile phone holdout for many years, until pay phones became virtually impossible to find) to make a call. I noticed a little butterfly was inside the phone booth, trapped. Madly trying to escape. I shot a video of it, and, sure, wrote a song about it. The photo I used for the jacket art is a still image from the video itself. That is the actual butterfly in the actual phone booth that inspired the song. You can see the video at YouTube here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWOr8DFCHY

lyrics

Butterfly Trapped in a Phone Booth

there's a little butterfly trapped in a phone booth
there's a little butterfly trapped in a phone booth
there's a little butterfly trapped in a phone booth
ain't that just a little bit too much like all our lives?

just on the other side of the glass the sky goes on forever
just on the other side of the glass the sky goes on forever
just on the other side of the glass the sky goes on forever
so the little butterfly keeps on struggling to be free

people outside passing by on their way to here and there
people outside passing by on their way to here and there
people outside passing by on their way to here and there
they don't notice, they don't see no little butterfly

you can flap your little wings, flap your wings forever
you can flap your little wings, flap your wings forever
you can flap your little wings, flap your wings forever
but it's really only pure dumb luck that'll set you free

there's a little butterfly trapped in a phone booth
there's a little butterfly trapped in a phone booth
there's a little butterfly trapped in a phone booth
ain't that just a little bit too much like all our lives?

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released December 3, 2020
Samm Bennett: vocal, 3-string guitar, percussion, etc
Recorded at Polarity Studio, Tokyo

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Samm Bennett - Polarity Records Tokyo, Japan

Singer and songwriter, player of unusual string instruments such as 3-string and 1-string guitar, plus jaw harps, mouthbow, electronics and junk, plus all manner of drums and percussion.

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