4/3/2024 0 Comments Rat birthday song lyrics![]() ![]() ![]() The brass parts that come in at 1:44 of ‘Honey Babe’ seamlessly intertwine with the vocals, like friends sitting at a dining table talking with each other – always giving another room to be heard.Ĭonversely, I love how strong O’Leary is on her own in ‘Outnumbered’, delivering the track almost as a soliloquy. My personal favourite tracks are definitely ‘Honey Babe’ and ‘Outnumbered’. It’s an oddly optimistic-sounding closing track after the darker/slower-paced songs which precede it, and a great way to finish off the EP. It makes the repeated mantra of “This year will be the best year yet” feel so much more hopeful in the face of hopelessness and past negativity. Particularly in ‘The Birthday Song’, I love how the saddened lyrics of the verses lie in near opposite contrast to the uplifting chords which carry the song. O’Leary knows precisely what is important to each song, and it feels that she has meticulously crafted her performance to follow the ebbs and flows of her stories. Occasionally, odd phrases stick out once in a while, such as the “I never did like talking anyway” in the opener ‘Mountain Tip’, or “I turned ten / my horse, she died” from 'The Birthday Song’ – and O’Leary carefully delivers these lines like a camera operator pulling focus on objects in the mise-en-scene. It’s unimportant what the lyrics say, but how they make the listener feel in the moments after they are said. Most lyrics on Treasure Horse are difficult for me to understand as individual lines, but they always cement themselves as a driving melodic tool in every one of these five songs. What sets it apart, for me at least, is that the importance of her lyricism isn’t anywhere near as important as the use of her voice as an instrument. O’Leary’s vocal delivery is incredibly unique to her, I genuinely can’t think of any other performer to relate it to. ![]()
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