Butterfly-Luke Ritchie

[ti:Butterfly] [ar:Luke Ritchie] [al: The Water's Edge] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Butterfly - Luke Ritchie [00:14.11]I caught it with both hands [00:15.67] [00:16.82]My little butterfly [00:17.64] [00:19.75]I took it on a whim [00:21.33] [00:22.40]It took me by surprise [00:23.73] [00:25.10]To find it on my path [00:26.65] [00:27.71]My sullen march to work [00:29.77] [00:30.71]I cupped it in my grasp [00:32.35] [00:34.14]Like a flame so thin [00:36.22] [00:39.18]A flame that never burns [00:40.51] [00:47.37]I held it to my chest [00:49.11] [00:50.02]And smuggled it back home [00:51.40] [00:52.76]It shivered at my palms [00:54.10] [00:55.56]The thought of what awaits [00:57.06] [00:58.37]A sample on a board [00:59.70] [01:01.23]A piercing through the chest [01:02.64] [01:03.70]A steady hand to prise [01:05.12] [01:07.95]Arms out wide and then firmly pinned [01:09.70] [01:10.96]Pressed to the wood all waxed and stiff [01:12.77] [01:13.41]Sometimes I fear I can't handle this [01:16.26]The pace and the scale of remorselessness [01:18.38] [01:19.29]Even the kids here would tear its wings [01:21.42] [01:22.07]Rip out her colours all paper thin [01:24.08] [01:24.73]These are the things you can't shrink from this [01:27.49]Weep for the stalk of a fallen leaf [01:29.37] [01:30.21]Take what I can and then leave the rest [01:32.44] [01:33.00]Keep it safe in one gripped fist [01:34.60] [01:42.94]I let her in my home [01:44.34] [01:45.58]I let her find her way [01:47.08] [01:48.29]It's here that we'll forget [01:50.27] [01:51.01]Only for today [01:51.88] [01:53.86]Just within these walls [01:54.95] [01:56.50]She'll never see it all [01:58.18] [01:59.22]She's fading in my arms [02:00.85] [02:02.76]With a breath so faint [02:05.19] [02:07.71]A voice that never spoke [02:08.92] [02:14.48]Sometimes I fear I can't handle this [02:16.31] [02:17.33]The pace and the scale of remorselessness [02:18.84] [02:20.13]Even the kids here would tear its wings [02:21.82] [02:23.00]Rip out her colours all paper thin [02:24.42] [02:25.51]These are the things you can't shrink from this [02:27.83] [02:28.36]Weep for the stalk of a fallen leaf [02:30.04] [02:31.11]Take what I can and then leave the rest [02:32.91] [02:33.89]Keep it safe in one gripped fist [02:35.67] [02:40.93]One gripped fist