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Artist: Adrianne Lenker
Canonical path: /adrianne-lenker/butterfly
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Butterfly
Read Butterfly lyrics by Adrianne Lenker on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Butterfly
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Butterfly, butterfly
Burning up my only sky
This is your highway, this is your height
Never felt more far away than when I fly
My heart is a violin
And I feel my skin coming off of me again
Up, up, up, how I flew up, up
And forgot about the only things I knew of, oh
Oh my god, as I grew up, up, thought I knew you
Pulling up, getting down
This whole place is crazy town
Music bumping and the lights gone down
Never felt at home in any place I found
Oh, I live in a cold, white wind
And I feel the chill coming over me again
Up, up, up, how I grew up, up
And forgot about the only things I knew of, oh
Oh my god as I grew up, up
How I flew up, up
And the crowd went hush
And the wild wind shook
And my body was crushed by the loose window
Thought I knew you
Thought I knew you
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Adrianne Lenker performs "Butterfly", and this lyric page sits inside the Adrianne Lenker catalog on LyroVerse.
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