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Away with the Fairies

by Janet Devlin

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I’m in ribbons again Can you help me my friend? I’ve been searching for my mind But I can’t seem to find it No matter where I’ve wandered Two sheets to the wind I’ll set sail from my sin And I’ll journey through the night Into the darkness Into the black and into the forests Grant me wings tonight Grant me wings to raise me high Grant me wings tonight Grant me wings so I can fly I’m away with the fairies I’ll be a moonbeam child I’m away with the fairies I’ll be the banshee cry Stop howling, stop howling Stop howling out my name I’m away with the fairies I’m away, I’m away, away again There’s a bottle of ghosts And the horror it hosts I’ve been hiding under tables Drowning in the fables A coffin in a cradle Grant me wings tonight Grant me wings to raise me high Grant me wing tonight Grant me wings so I can fly I’m away with the fairies I’ll be a moonbeam child I’m away with the fairies I’ll be the banshee cry Stop howling, stop howling Stop howling out my name I’m away with the fairies I’m away, I’m away, away again I call it a blessing You call it a curse My soul is confessing My life in a verse I’m away with the fairies I’ll be a moonbeam child I’m away with the fairies I’ll be the banshee cry Stop howling, stop howling Stop howling out my name I’m away with the fairies I’m away, I’m away, away again

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Janet Devlin’s new fairy-tale folk-pop song brings light to shade, and follows three dark, defiant releases leading up to her eagerly-anticipated studio album Confessional , available May 1st 2020.

Dipped in mandolin, bodhran and cello, with a fluttery piano riff and lilting melody, the track - written by Janet about disconnected, out of body moments - strikes a comforting, familiar tone and returns the singer-songwriter to the sounds of her Irish roots. The addition of a harp brings a mystical, ethereal feel to the song, “To me, nothing says fairies quite like the sound of the harp,” says Janet. From the age of six, Janet was fully immersed in the sounds of home, playing tin-whistle and fiddle in a local cèilidh band. “My collection of trad music CDs, tapes and vinyl of music from the likes of The Fureys and The Dubliners alongside listening to the radio with my grandmother are influences that I brought to this track and throughout the album.”

In this new single, the fourth admission from her collection of confessions, Janet explores the mind’s ability to disassociate with its surroundings – to be ‘away with the fairies’ - a personal reality that stemmed from her struggle to survive hidden addictions. The carefree nature of the track is at odds with the story at its heart; whimsical verses juxtaposed against a life that was anything but. She explains;

“I wrote this song about the rose-tinted glasses of youth, or more accurately - the beer goggles. I wanted the track to embody the happygo-lucky spirit of drinking in your teenage years. How you can purchase a cheap elixir from the local corner shop that’ll remove all social anxiety and inhibitions, and in those days, all seemingly without consequence.”

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released March 13, 2020

Written by Janet Devlin & Paul Statham
Recorded in Rak Studios London & Westland Studios Dublin
Produced and Mixed by Jonathan Quarmby
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road

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