Shanghai

"Shanghai" is the 2nd track of the 2021 release Butterfly 3000. It was released on June 11th 2021, and its respective music video was released June 21st 2021. The track was cowritten and mixed by Stu Mackenzie, cowritten by Ambrose Kenny-Smith, and mastered by Joseph Carra.

Lyrics

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, bye bye my life

Born again overnight

Bright lights up high, dark thoughts in my mind

Born again overnight

Bright lights up high, grey smog all the time

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Ok, let me my trace my steps

Pour a drink, let's recap the sequence

One minute, you're swigging on a green tea

Next minute, floating on a pillow in a den

From there it gets a little hazy

Like a camera out of focus, shaking

Slow motion in the club free-falling through my seat

Hit the floor transforming

Undergoing complete metamorphous

From a moth caterpillar to a chrysalis

Spinning in a silken house like a spider spins a web

I'm a well known insect

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, bye bye my life

Born again overnight

Bright lights up high, dark thoughts in my mind

Born again overnight

Bright lights up high, grey smog all the time

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Flying through the You Garden to the People's Square

That's where you find your happiness

With a little too much Szechuan in the pot

Sending sensational content

Neck stuck from looking up at the high rise buildings trying to caress

Enlightenment through an out of body experience

You're thriving in this environment

Come find me on almost every continent

Cold-blooded but I can't stand the Antarctic

Guess I've been born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight

Bye bye Shanghai, I've become a butterfly

Born again overnight