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Artist: Jim Lauderdale
Canonical path: /jim-lauderdale/black-butterfly
Related lyric paths: 6
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Black Butterfly
Read Black Butterfly lyrics by Jim Lauderdale on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Black Butterfly
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Goodbye black butterfly
You can take those perfect wings
Into outer space
'Cos there's no place left in this blood
For your restless fluttering
Your sleepless ways
Black butterfly flutter me by
Kick a little bitter into the night
Spark of the stars leaving on my heart
Trying to be good by you
Alright, alright
Salt breeze rose city sunset
The bats are swinging 'round me
Like drunken ships
Ever - evergreen bows above me tower
Singin' quiet stories 'bout forgiveness
Black butterfly flutter me by
Kick a little bitter into the night
Spark of the stars leaving on my heart
Trying to be good by you
Alright, alright
Alright, alright (x4)
Alright, alright
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Jim Lauderdale performs "Black Butterfly", and this lyric page sits inside the Jim Lauderdale catalog on LyroVerse.
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