Love death & madness please review |
PURPLE BUTTERFLY Too few memories held close I sit here in this room your face it pales dear the time is coming soon Angry cries betray me racking sobs I embrace the floor my love could not save you I can do no more Softly I hear you whisper I scramble to your bed on my shoulder, darling rest your fragile head your words bind me I shall never be free your words embrace me I wait anxiously You said when the morn has broken seek Jack-In-The-Box gully down our favourite track by the old mahogany tree sit beside the Kush- Kush grass wait for me do not be downcast search the sky by the mahogany tree I shall return a purple butterfly Then your spirit left me I walked out the door spent the night in the gully with our puppy Theodore I sat there waiting as the sun filled the sky waiting waiting for a purple butterfly Evening came still nothing that's where they found me carried me home screaming you promised me! so come back to me my love so we can fly come back to me my love as a purple butterfly They said the funeral was lovely I can't remember much more and more these days I feel I'm losing touch Everyday I go walking by the old mahogany tree you have to keep your promise you have to come back to me! Sometimes I don't come home sometimes I don't sleep food passes my lips no more I no longer eat I gaze at the mahogany tree so unhappily waiting waiting for you to come back to me So come back to me my love so we can fly come back to me my love as a purple butterfly Doc Phillips came to find me they had brought him there they say I'm sick but I can hardly hear cause am focusing on the mahogany tree as the sun fills the sky desperately seeking a purple butterfly They say I have to go now but I'm not leaving here you promised! I know you'll come! I know you will be here! Suddenly the voices tell me "you must escape or die they'll take you to jenkins you'll never see your purple butterfly" Though my body is to weary I know I must try try to find you my purple butterfly So I ran to the mahogany tree feet tangle in my skirt with primal cry I fall into the dirt Crying and clawing I can't say goodbye carried me home screaming you promised! you promised! a purple butterfly Many years I've been here rocking endlessly muttering purple butterfly, purple butterfly, purple butterfly willing you to find me I know you're by the mahogany tree know what I have to do if I'm to be with you So when Sister Brown comes with the medicine I grab her by her throat as my hand squeezes her windpipe I hear her choke wearing her uniform I walked out the door They can hold me no more I hear you calling "come to me" faster and faster I run to the mahogany tree But there's no tree! I search frantically Everything looks different and I don't know why oh my god where are you my purple butterfly Then again you whisper "come to me" and there you are right in front my eyes after all these years a purple butterfly! I follow you to the clearing then you landed there I see something glitter I know why I'm here know what I must do to be with you my dear I hold the knife lovingly I caress the blade you hover above me and whispered "do it and be saved and we will be together we will touch the sky you and I as two purple butterflies" In and instant it is over without a cry they are people screaming standing over my body I see them from the sky as I float there with you my love two purple butterflies |