The Butcher And The Butterfly

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There is a finger missing on my right hand
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A butcher's hand in a butterfly wing span
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The sky hangs on a thread as I paint the white picket fence red
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Said "Am I alive or am I dead?"

[Verse 2]
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I caught a rainbow tear in her sunset smile
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I told the broken bird of my unborn child
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These blood-stained walls crown her head
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I found my girl bleeding in his bed

[Chorus]
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The angels cried in butterfly red
(The butcher and the butterfly)
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Her wings are torn, my baby's dead
(The butcher and the butterfly)

[Verse 3]
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I put my girl in the butcher's hand
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"She is my curse," cried fireman Sam
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Heaven down below inscribes her name
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My baby girl's lost in amongst these flames

[Chorus]
A          G                  E
The angels cried in butterfly red
(The butcher and the butterfly)
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Her wings are torn, my baby's dead
(The butcher and the butterfly)
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Oh heaven, help me what have I done?
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I kissed the daughter of my unborn son

[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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Heaven down below inscribed her name
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Let heaven, heaven rain down again

[Chorus]
A          G                  E
The angels cried in butterfly red
(The butcher and the butterfly)
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Her wings are torn, my baby's dead
(The butcher and the butterfly)
A          G                  E
The angels cried in butterfly red
(The butcher and the butterfly)
A             G               E
Her wings are torn, my baby's dead
(The butcher and the butterfly)