This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Come my lady
Come come my lady, you're my butterfly
Sugar baby (X2)
Such a sexy, sexy pretty little thing
Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring and I ain´t gonna lie cause your loving gets me high
So to keep you by my side there's nothing that I won't try
Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill
Time is passing
I'm asking could this be real
Cause I can't sleep I can't hold still
The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal
I can feel too much is never enough
you're always there to lift me up
When these times get rough I was lost
Now I'm found
Ever since you've been around
you're the women that I want
So yo, I'm putting it down.
CHORUS
I don't deserve you unless it?s some kind of hidden message to show me life is precious
Then I guess it?s true
To tell truth, I really never knew
Till I met you I was lost and confused
Twisted and used up
Knew a better life existed but thought that I missed it
My lifestyle's wild I was living like a wild child
Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files
And yo. what's happening now?
I see the sun breaking shining through dark clouds and a vision of you standing out in a crowd.
[CHORUS]
Hey sugar momma, come and dance with me
The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me
So, what ever tickles your fancy
Girl it's you like Sid and Nancy
So sexy... almost evil
Talkin about butterflies in my head
I used to think happy endings were only in the books I read
But you made me feel alive when I was almost dead
You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase
And as far as I can see it don't get better than this
So butterfly, here is a song and it?s sealed with a kiss and a thank you miss.
[CHORUS]
Come come my lady, you're my butterfly
Sugar baby (X2)
Such a sexy, sexy pretty little thing
Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring and I ain´t gonna lie cause your loving gets me high
So to keep you by my side there's nothing that I won't try
Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill
Time is passing
I'm asking could this be real
Cause I can't sleep I can't hold still
The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal
I can feel too much is never enough
you're always there to lift me up
When these times get rough I was lost
Now I'm found
Ever since you've been around
you're the women that I want
So yo, I'm putting it down.
CHORUS
I don't deserve you unless it?s some kind of hidden message to show me life is precious
Then I guess it?s true
To tell truth, I really never knew
Till I met you I was lost and confused
Twisted and used up
Knew a better life existed but thought that I missed it
My lifestyle's wild I was living like a wild child
Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files
And yo. what's happening now?
I see the sun breaking shining through dark clouds and a vision of you standing out in a crowd.
[CHORUS]
Hey sugar momma, come and dance with me
The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me
So, what ever tickles your fancy
Girl it's you like Sid and Nancy
So sexy... almost evil
Talkin about butterflies in my head
I used to think happy endings were only in the books I read
But you made me feel alive when I was almost dead
You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase
And as far as I can see it don't get better than this
So butterfly, here is a song and it?s sealed with a kiss and a thank you miss.
[CHORUS]
Lyrics submitted by docile_kipper
Butterfly Lyrics as written by Nicole Mullen Craig Young
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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