Butterfly

Butterfly is track eleven on the 2024 album Yummy.

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Make a wish drop a coin in the well
Picked her up hitching to Chicago
Rucksack, skateboard, bashed up acoustic guitar
Back of the bar she dances slow
Spins and spins, lost in her headphones
A kiss that lasts the length of a distant song

Watching her sleep in the morning light
Whispering dreams, no worry lines
Butterfly writes a song
In the air, no man can read
Sets down on the nest of red hair
Wings outspread open like a Bible
She tastes of sweetcorn
Jasmine, cardamon seeds

Bye, bye butterfly
Beyond the glass, the open sky
Your time is brief, your impact fleetingly deep
Gone, gone the moments gone
Flipped a coin and then move on
Your time was brief, your impact deep

Spinner got hooked in the branch of an oak tree Watching wind ripple through the wheat fields
She found him sleeping in a pile of dead leaves
Can't catch hold of a summer breeze
Hang your coat on a wave on a sunbeam
She woke him up, he was asleep

Can't catch hold of a summer breeze
Hang your coat on a wave on a sunbeam
She woke him up, he was asleep

Bye, bye butterfly
Beyond the glass, the open sky
Your time is brief, your impact fleetingly deep
Gone, gone the moments gone
Flipped a coin and then move on
Your time was brief, your impact deep

Maybe it's a lie
Maybe it's a crime
Maybe it's a one way street

Maybe it's a lie
Maybe it's a crime
Maybe it's a one way street

Dives from the bridge, crushed by the waves
Ocean tears at his clothes
Puts rocks in his pockets
He struggles to the place where the car hit the sea

Hand over fist down a rope of seaweed
Dives to the kelp bed floor
To the wreck of the flat top car
Frees a red haired girl from the passenger seat
Breathe, breathe

Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy

Flowers can fly
Enchanted by beauty
Mesmerises
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Flowers can fly
Enchanted by beauty
Mesmerises
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan