We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Butterfly

from The Simplest of Things by Kate Rowe

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $0.80 AUD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

I didn’t come out anymore
You saw my light under the door
Your love melted the walls away
It was a beautiful day
So simple and so fine
I let you free my wings a thread at a time
I wanted to be your good angel divine
And you said:

Chorus:
Come up with me, into the sky
Be who you are, my butterfly
Into my arms, into the air
Come away my beauty my fair
All of my life all of my days
See only light be only amazed
Spread out your wings, set them ablaze
My butterfly

But how could I go and abandon my Nile
My lumpy green skin, my dangerous smile
My cruising through water, my feasting on through
I’d starve to death on just honey and dew

Chorus

I’d gain the heavens but I’d lose my claws,
My mane, my teeth, my velvety paws
Never to run across prairie or plain
I’d just go insane I’d just go insane I’d just go insane
The time came to fly, I waited too long
And you faded away in my varying song
What can I do when I am of the kind
That howls at the moon and changes her mind

But one day when this is all over
I’ll go to the sky
I do have these wings I’ll give them a try
I’ll go without you, I now understand
I’ve got nothing to prove to any man
All of my life all of my night
I will be dark as much as I’m light
You know the owl also takes flight
My butterfly

credits

from The Simplest of Things, released November 1, 2007

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Kate Rowe image

Kate Rowe Perth, Australia

Quirky songs for adults and kids. Topics include space rabbits, coffee, the Big Bang, blind dates and talking dogs.

contact / help

Contact Kate Rowe

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Kate Rowe, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now