The Bolter

Yes.

The Bolter, which I love.

Started with a kiss.

Oh, we must stop meeting like this.

It remains the song that I am the most jealous of not having as a surprise song.

on the Aries tour.

And that includes the Black Dog, that includes the Bolter, that includes New Romantics.

Truly, if I could go back in time and choose one, I would choose our song.

... babes

... its sister to me really is The Bolter.

It wants to be The Bolter really bad, and The Bolter just has a more resonant message that fits with tortured poets.

Like, it makes sense in the context of the album that it's on, even if it's not a directly autobiographical thing.

But Babylon just don't make no sense, love.

Oh.

I would say even The Bolter is a more Showgirl song than Babylon is, if you think about it.

Oh, yeah.

That's one of my most favorite songs.

I enjoy Bolter.

Mm.

The clean re- The Bolter.

Mm.

The clean version.

Well, and then we discovered The Bolter is really Talia-coded.

Um, yeah, Bolter's very Talia-coded, but some of those songs came out after pubs.

Yeah, the only real downside that I can think of to including a playlist-- Well, two technically, but the one main one is that it probably dates the piece because, like, I pick songs that were relevant at the time that I was writing that book and, like, all the-

Mm-hmm

... pre-pub work that we did, and by the time that that book came out, The Bolter, for example, was released-

... later.

Um, and I would have loved to include that, but it kind of, it kind of like, whatever songs you pick that are relevant to your book really encapsulate what time it was written.

Um, the other downside is, like, maybe not everyone's gonna listen to it 'cause, like, I love looking at it, but, like, I don't think-- This sounds bad.

No

... uh, The Bolter.

Like, it does not have-

Yeah