Notes: ‘It Draws The Same’ came out of a realisation that so many stories in folk songs and ballads are about women drowning. I was looking at that famous painting of Ophelia by Millais and researching murder ballads when I came across an interesting analysis of female death in folk songs. It talked about a kind of liberation in women’s suicide, in escaping her murder, and looking at that picture of Ophelia, so serene, I felt almost a seduction for that sense of freedom, which is what ultimately inspired me to write the song. I guess then the song is an ode to Ophelia as well as a critique of the way women are depicted in folksong and ballads. “When the waters too light it wears you out”.