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The Birthday Song

from Treasure Horse by Greta O'Leary

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Oh you've survived
One hundred percent of your birthdays
So far
If you're standing here you've survived

Wasn't one I didn't cry
And i've been dumped more than twice
I turned ten
My horse she died
Watched her fall under foot
Wrote in a comic book
My primary school memoir

This will be the best year yet
I can feel it
This will be the best year yet

He said no, I'll leave it
Strikes midnight the prince has departed
I wish I was back in Melbourne
Never felt so loved there see me do you see me

This will be the best year yet
I can feel it
This will be the best year yet

Said I was like a cartoon
Irish quiet black eyes of knowing
You saved me those years I never knew
Of lives like this, told me I'm an artist
That's ok you're a late starter too

This will be the best year yet
I can feel it
This will be the best year yet
This will be the best year yet
I can feel it
This will be the best year yet
Oh year yet
Oh you've survived
100% of your birthdays, so far
This will be the best year yet
This will be the best year yet
100% of your birthdays, so far
This will be the best year yet
I can feel it

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from Treasure Horse, released November 18, 2022

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Greta O'Leary Wellington, New Zealand

Spook-folk Sweetheart Greta O’Leary is a songwriter and musician whose pervasive yet spacious sound cuts through the thickest of skins.

Poignant, heartbreaking, and occasionally absurd, O’Leary seizes us with her dynamic voice, bending the folk-genre to another plane. Think Angel Olsen meets Vashti Bunyan.

“Acoustic, with a free-thinking aesthetic and a refusal to conform”- Muzicnet
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