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Butterfly
by Mariah Carey
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Overall Rating:
3.3864
Avg. Critic Score:
3.4750
Butterfly Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- Honey, You can have me when you want me
- If you just simply ask me to be there
- And you're the only one who makes me come running
- Cause what you got is far beyond compare
- And its just like honey
- When your love comes over me
- Oh baby, I've got a dependancy
- Always strung out for another taste of your honey
- *Chorus*
- It's like honey really washes over me
- You know sugar never ever was so sweet
- And I'm dyin for ya, cryin for ya, I adore ya
- One hit of your love addicted me
- Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
- Don't you see every night and day
- I cant hardly wait for another taste of honey
- Honey I can't describe
- How good it feels inside
- Honey I can't describe
- How good it feels inside
- *Chorus*
- I can't be elusive with you Honey
- Cause It's blatant that I've feeling you
- And it's too hard for me to leave abruptly
- Cause you're the only thing I wanna do
- And it's just like Honey
- When your love comes over me
- Oh baby, I've got a dependancy
- Always strung out for another
- Taste of your honey
- *Chorus*
- It's like honey really washes over me
- You know sugar never ever was so sweet
- And I'm dyin for ya, cryin for ya, I adore ya
- One hit of your love addicted me
- Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
- Don't you see every night and day
- I cant hardly wait for another taste of honey
- Honey I can't describe
- How good it feels inside
- Honey I can't describe
- How good it feels inside
- *Chorus*
- Butterfly
- When you love someone so deeply
- They become your life
- It's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears
- inside
- Blindly I imagined I could
- Keep you under glass
- Now I understand to hold you
- I must open up my hands
- And watch you rise
- Chorus
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were meant to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- Verse
- I have learned that beauty
- Has to flourish in the light
- Wild horses run unbridled
- Or their spirit dies
- You have given me the courage
- To be all that I can
- And I truly feel your heart will
- Lead you back to me when you're
- Ready to land
- Chorus
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were meant to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- Bridge
- I can't pretend these tears
- Aren't over flowing steadily
- I can't prevent this hurt from
- Almost overtaking me
- But I will stand and say goodbye
- For you'll never be mine
- Until you know the way
- it feels to fly
- Chorus
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were meant to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- Chorus
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were meant to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- So flutter through the sky
- Butterfly
- Spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- I am thinking of you
- In my sleepless solitude tonight
- If it's wrong to love you
- Then my heart just won't let me be right
- 'Cause I've drowned in you
- And I won't pull through
- Without you by my side
- Chorus
- I'd give my all to have
- Just one more night with you
- I'd risk my life to feel
- Your body next to mine
- 'cause I can't go on
- Living in the memory of your song
- I'd give my all for your love tonight
- Verse
- Baby can you feel me
- Imagining I'm looking in your eyes
- I can see you clearly
- Vividly emblazoned in my mind
- And yet you're so far
- Like a distant star
- I'm wishing on tonight
- Chorus
- I'd give my all to have
- Just one more night with you
- I'd risk mylife to feel
- Your body next to mine
- 'cause I can't go on
- Living in the memory of your song
- I'd give my all for your love tonight
- ** Guitar Break
- Chorus
- I'd give my all to have
- Just one more night with you
- I'd risk my life to feel
- Your body next to mine
- 'cause I can't go on
- Living in the memory of your song
- I'd give my all for your love tonight
- Give my all for your love
- Tonight
- It wasn't raining yet
- But it was definitely a little misty on
- That warm november night
- And my heart was pounding
- My inner voice resounding
- Begging me to turn away
- But I just had to see your face
- To feel alive
- And then you casually walked in the room
- And I was twisted in the web
- Of my desire for you
- (And I was twisted)
- My apprehension blew away
- I only wanted you
- To taste my sadness
- As you kissed me in the dark
- Chorus
- Every time I feel the need
- I envision you caressing me
- And go back in time
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- On the rooftop that rainy night
- Verse
- And so we finished the Moet and
- started feeling liberated
- And I surrendered as you took me
- In your arms
- I was so caught up in the moment
- I couldn't bear to let you go yet
- So I threw caution to the wind
- And started listening to my longing heart
- And then you softly pressed your lips to mine
- And feelings surfaced I'd suppressed
- For such a long time
- (And I was lifted)
- And for a while I forgot
- The sorrow and the pain
- And melted with you as we stood
- There in the rain
- Chorus
- Every time I feel the need
- I envision you caressing me
- And go back in time
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- On the rooftop that rainy night
- Every time I feel the need
- I envision you caressing me
- And go back in time
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- On the rooftop that rainy night
- Bridge
- Last night I dreamed that I
- Whispered the words I love you
- And touched you so very
- Subtly as we were kissing goodbye
- (Pretty baby - How I'm missing you)
- Chorus
- Every time I feel the need
- I envision you caressing me
- (Envision you caressing me)
- And go back in time
- (I go back)
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- On the rooftop that rainy night
- (On the roof that rainy night)
- Chorus
- Every time I feel the need
- (When I feel the need)
- I envision you caressing me
- (I envision you over and over and over again)
- And go back in time
- (I go back)
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- (It was oh so sweet you and I)
- On the rooftop that rainy night
- (On that rainy night)
- Chorus
- Every time I feel the need
- (Last nigth I had the strangest dream...)
- I envision you caressing me
- (I was actually quite symbolic)
- And go back in time
- (As I whispered...That I loved you)
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- (...very subtly)
- Chorus
- Every time I feel the need
- I envision you caressing me
- And go back in time
- To relieve the splendor of you and I
- On the rooftop that rainy night
- Trembling Starry eyed
- As you put your hand in mine...
- Verse
- It was twilight
- On the Fourth of July
- Sparkling colors were
- Strewn across the sky
- And we sat close enough
- That we just barely touched
- While roman candles
- Went soaring above us and baby
- Chorus
- Then you put your hand in mine
- And we wandered away
- I was trembling inside
- But I wanted to stay
- Pressed against you there
- and leave the world behind
- On that Fourth of July
- Verse
- So starry eyed
- On the flowery hillside
- Breathless and fervid
- Amid the dandelions
- As it swept over me
- Like the wind trough the trees
- I felt you sigh with a
- Sweet intensity and baby
- Chorus
- Then you put your hand in mine
- And we floated away
- Delicately lay entwined
- In an intimate daze
- A crescent moon began to shine
- And I wanted to stay
- Tangled up with you among the fireflies
- On that Fourth of July
- Bridge
- Thunder clouds
- Hung around
- So threateningly
- Ominously hovering
- And the sky
- Opened wide
- Showering
- Chorus
- Then you put your hand in mine
- And we ran from the rain
- Tentatively kissed goodnight
- And went our separate ways
- And I've never truly felt the way that I
- Felt the Fourth of July
- Outro
- Truly I have never felt the same inside
- Like that Fourth of July
- Truly I could never feel the same as I
- Felt that Fourth of July
- [Krayzie Bone - 1]
- Break, breakdown, steady breaking me on down
- Break, breakdown, steady breaking me on down
- Break, breakdown, steady breaking me on down
- Break, breakdown, steady breaking me on down
- [Mariah Carey]
- You called yesterday
- To basically say
- That you care for me but
- That you're just not in love
- Immediately I pretended to be feeling similarly
- And led you to believe I was OK
- To just walk away from the one thing
- That's unyielding and sacred to me
- [Chorus]
- Well I guess I'm trying not to be nonchalant about it
- And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you
- But in reality I'm slowly losing my mind
- Underneath the guise of smile gradually I'm dying inside
- Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly
- Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
- So I wear my disguise till I go home at night
- Then turn down all the lights and then I breakdown and cry
- [Mariah Carey]
- So what do you do when somebody you're so devoted to
- Suddenly just stops loving you and it seems they haven't got a clue
- Of the pain that rejection is putting you through
- Do you cling to your pride and sing ";I Will Survive";
- (Gotta get control and roll roll roll on) (x4 in background)
- Do you lash out and say
- How dare you leave this way
- Do you hold on in vain as they as they just slip away
- [Chorus] - with 1 repeated in background
- [Wish Bone]
- Yeah, come on, yeah come on come on
- [Mariah Carey]
- I'm gonna breakdown
- [Krayzie Bone]
- Break, breakdown
- Gotta get control and roll roll roll on
- Steady breaking me on down
- Gotta get control and roll roll roll on
- [Mariah Carey]
- I'm gonna breakdown
- [Krayzie Bone]
- Break, breakdown
- Gotta get control and roll roll roll on
- Steady breaking me on down
- Gotta get control and roll on
- [Wish Bone]
- Gonna break you down
- Only if you let it
- Everyday crazy situations rocking my mind
- Trying to break me down
- But I won't let it
- Forget it (Forget it)
- [Krayzie Bone]
- I be feeling like your breaking me down
- Kicking me around, stressing me out
- I think you better go and get out
- And let me release some stress (stress)
- [Wish Bone]
- Don't ever wanna feel no pain (pain)
- Hoping for the sun but it looks like rain (rain, rain, rain)
- Lord, I just wanna maintain
- [Krayzie Bone]
- Yeah, I'm feeling pressures y'all
- But nevertheless Krayzie won't fall
- It's over, it's ending here (here)
- [Chorus] repeated until fade (With 1 and Mariah singing ";Cry"; throughout)
- It's 2:11 and I'm stressing
- Watching Tv in my hotel suite
- I check my service every second
- At 2:10 you still hadn't called me
- So I'm gonna leave my cell phone
- Turned on in my purse by the bed
- And before I fall asleep
- I guess I'll just check my machine
- Again and again because I'm
- Obsessing on you
- Chorus
- I wanna be your babydoll
- Wrap me up nice and tight
- Love me through the night
- Come lay me down
- Enfold me in your arms
- Cover me with velvet kisses
- Rock me on and on
- And whisper softly to me
- You wanna be my babydoll
- Verse
- Zoning out thinking about
- You and me between the sheets
- I want to get intimate
- But you're not within my reach
- So I'll have a little more wine
- And I'll try to drink you
- Out of my head
- And I'll lay awake awhile
- 'Til I'm high enough I can
- Forget about you until
- I wake up again
- Chorus
- I wanna be your babydoll
- Wrap me up nice and tight
- Love me through the night
- Come lay me down
- Enfold me in your arms
- Cover me with velvet kisses
- Rock me on and on
- And whisper softly to me
- You wanna be my babydoll
- Verse
- Slipping into dreams
- I feel my love surround you
- Ny subconscious seems
- To weave itself around you
- Do you care for me
- Beyond idolization
- Tell me how you feel
- But don't keep me at bay
- 'Cause I won't be waiting long
- Chorus
- I wanna be your babydoll
- Wrap me up nice and tight
- Love me through the night
- Come lay me down
- Enfold me in your arms
- Cover me with velvet kisses
- Rock me on and on
- And whisper softly to me
- You wanna be my babydoll
- Chorus
- I wanna be your babydoll
- Wrap me up nice and tight
- Love me through the night
- Come lay me down
- Enfold me in your arms
- Cover me with velvet kisses
- Rock me on and on
- And whisper softly to me
- You wanna be my babydoll
- Verse 1
- I was a wayward child
- With the weight of the world
- That I held deep inside
- Life was a winding road
- And I learned many things
- Little ones shouldn't know
- Chorus 1
- But I closed my eyes
- Steadied my feet on the ground
- Raised my head to the sky
- And though time's rolled by
- Still I feel like that child
- As I look at the moon
- Maybe I grew up a little too soon
- Verse 2
- Funny how one can learn
- To grow numb to the madness
- And block it away
- I left the worst unsaid
- Let it all dissipate
- And I try to forget
- Chorus 2
- As I closed my eyes
- Steadied my feet on the ground
- Raised my head to the sky
- And the time rolled by
- Still I feel like a child
- As I look at the moon
- Maybe I grew up a little too soon
- Bridge
- Nearind the edge
- Oblivious I almost
- Fell right over
- A part of me
- Will never be uite able
- To feel stable
- That woman-child falling inside
- Was on the verge of fading
- Thankfully I
- Woke up in time
- Verse 3
- Guardian angel I
- Sail away on an ocean
- With you by my side
- Orange clouds roll by
- They burn into you image
- And you're still alive
- (You're always alive)
- Chorus 3
- As I close my eyes
- Steady my feet on the ground
- Raise my head to the sky
- And though time rolls by
- Still I feel like a child
- As I look at the moon
- Maybe I grew up a little too soon
- Love wandered inside
- Stronger than you
- Stronger than I
- And now that it has begun
- We cannot turn back
- We can only turn into one
- Chorus
- I won't ever be too far away to feel you
- And I won't hesitate at all
- Whenever you call
- And I'll always remeber
- The part of you so tender
- I'll be the one to catch you fall
- Whenever you call
- Verse
- And I'm truly inspired
- Finding my soul
- There in your eyes
- And you
- Have opened my heart
- And lifted me inside
- By showing me yourself
- Undisguised
- Chorus
- I won't ever be too far away to feel you
- And I won't hesitate at all
- Whenever you call
- And I'll always remeber
- The part of you so tender
- I'll be the one to catch you fall
- Whenever you call
- Bridge
- And I will breathe for you each day
- Comfort you through all the pain
- Gently kiss your fears away
- You can turn to me and cry
- Always understand that I
- Give you all I am inside
- Chorus
- I won't ever be too far away to feel you
- And I won't hesitate at all
- Whenever you call
- Chorus
- I won't ever be too far away to feel you
- And I won't hesitate at all
- Whenever you call
- And I'll always remeber
- The part of you so tender
- I'll be the one to catch you fall
- VERSE 1
- When you love someone so deeply
- They become your life
- It's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside
- Blindly I imaged I could
- Keep you under glass
- Now I understand to hold you
- I must open my hands
- And watch you rise
- CHORUS 1
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were ment to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- VERSE 2
- I have learned that beauty
- Has to flourish in the light
- Wild horses run unbridled
- Or their spirit dies
- You have given me the courage
- To be all that I can
- And truly feel your heart will
- Lead you back to me when you're
- Ready to land
- CHORUS 2
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were ment to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- BRIDGE
- I can't pretend these tears
- Aren't over flowing steadily
- I can't prevent this hurt from
- Almost overtaking me
- But will stand and say goodbye
- For you'll never be mine
- Until you know the way it feels to fly
- CHORUS 3
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were ment to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- CHORUS 4
- Spread your wings and prepare to fly
- For you have become a butterfly
- Fly abandonedly into the sun
- If you should return to me
- We truly were ment to be
- So spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- So flutter through the sky
- Butterfly
- Spread your wings and fly
- Butterfly
- Baby, baby, baby
- What's it gonna be?
- Baby, baby, baby
- Is it him or is it me?
- Don't make me waste my time
- Don't make me lose my mind baby
- Baby, baby, baby
- Can't you stay with me tonight?
- Oh baby, baby, baby
- Don't my kisses please you right?
- You were so hard to find
- The beautiful ones, they hurt you
- Every time
- Pint a perfect picture
- Bring to life a vision in one's mind
- The beautiful ones
- (The beautiful ones)
- Always smash the picture
- Always every time
- If I told you baby
- That I was in love with you
- Oh Baby, baby, baby
- If we got married
- Would that be cool?
- You make me so confused
- The beautiful ones
- You always seems to lose
- It's hard to explain
- Inherently it's just always been strange
- Neither here or there
- Always somewhat out of place everywhere
- Ambiguous
- Without a sense of belonging to touch
- Somewhere halfway
- Feeling there's no one completely the same
- Chorus
- Standing alone
- Eager to just
- Believe it's good enough to be what
- You really are
- But in your heart
- Uncertainty forever lies
- And you'll always be
- Somewhere on the
- Outside
- Verse
- Early on, you face
- The realization you don't
- have a space
- Where you fit in
- And recognize you
- Were born to exist
- Chorus
- Standing alone
- Eager to just
- Believe it's good enough to be what
- You really are
- But in your heart
- Uncertainty forever lies
- And you'll always be
- Somewhere on the
- Outside
- And it's hard
- And it's hard
- And it's hard
- Bridge
- Irreversibly
- Falling in between
- And it's hard
- And it's hard
- To be understood
- As you are
- As you are
- Oh, and God knows
- That you're standing on your own
- Blind and unguided
- Into a world divided
- You're thrown
- Where you're never quite the same
- Although you try-try and try
- To tell yourself
- You really are
- But in your heart-uncertainty forever lies
- And you'll always be
- Somewhere on the outside
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