A lot of people asked me for the lyrics so here we go. Lyrics credit to my senior Kasturee Kailash. She wrote this short poem accompanying a beautiful painting she made with the same name. This prompted our guitarist, coincidently her boyfriend(!), Prateek Dubey, to compose on it and the result is the gift of a song! We performed it for her on their farewell, sweet innit? :)
According to her, it is loosely inspired by a story she had heard wherein a boy is trying to look for his lost butterfly and while trying to catch it he accidentally kills it.
Blue Butterfly
[Verse 1]
My lost blue butterfly
Cold jaded mist from the morning sky
My lost blue butterfly
Cold jaded mist from the morning sky
Ebony and gold covered
Wings colored blueberry ripe
Canvas on the azure sky
Have been painted
[Chorus]
Million fireflies [X4]
My lost blue butterfly
Won't you try?
[Verse 2]
Half bitten wings a curled up carcass
Blue blood in a bowl of red criss-cross mess
Half bitten wings a curled up carcass
Blue blood in a bowl of red criss-cross mess
I dream of wings folding and unfolding
My hands won't let you go by
Canvas on the azure sky
Have been painted
[Chorus]
My lost blue butterfly
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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Oh boy!! I couldn't make out all the words listening to the song...so I didn't know it was such a sad song!!
"Blue blood in a bowl of..." aaarrrgghhh!!! how sad!
Damn, I didn't do a good job then :|
oh.. no... thats not the point here. you can blame it on the recording :P if you want :)
Yeah... songs of dead butterflys... I wish the song of the dead chicken on the grill would get some eyeballs too :((
im all too entirely in <3 with your voice.
and the words remind me of my
'you wait patiently. But'
i listened to this song of urs...it was beautiffuul
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