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I Want to be a Butterfly Lyrics by The Madding Crowd

A Stitch in Time

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On this moonlit night
I pine for someone to hold
But they're not forthcoming
As far as I see, hear or know
And I should have learned by now
It’s unbearably clear to see
That love in all of its splendor
Was not made for souls like me
I don't try to understand it
Just accept it as an inevitability
Who am I to demand it
When it makes no demand of me?

Life has shackled me
And no key seems it's coming my way
I can’t seem to give myself
The freedom to be me
I don't want to be solitary anymore
Oh why are you so blind?
I turn out a caterpillar
When I want to be a Butterfly
And oh God I am done
It seems now that life has locked the door
And I'm damned to trudge on alone
But this way I don't want to live anymore

I don't want to live anymore

About “I Want to be a Butterfly” by The Madding Crowd

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"I Want to be a Butterfly" appears on "A Stitch in Time".

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