The child puts the fallen leaves into a secret book
Names everything he sees with just a loving look
The evenings he is dreaming of the seasons
When the colours come again
The man spends his summer days collecting butterflies
He dreams letting each away just in the breath before it dies
Frozen in a moment when it’s going
Down in circles in the jar
Flattened in a pattern like a map of
Veins and colours where they are
All the world’s own creatures suddenly mine
All the world’s best secrets finally mine
Pass every summer lost in wonder
Years playing in a secret garden here
All the world’s own creatures suddenly mine
All the world’s best secrets finally mine
One by one the years invisibly by
One by one the golden butterflies die
Written by William Jones
Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
credits
from Folk Songs,
released July 4, 2011
William Jones: voice, Spanish guitar
Julian Gregory: violin
Clare Dixon: violin
Tania Maxwell: viola
Peter Dixon: cello
Al Wood: trumpet
Jon Kirby: keyboards
Kevin Walker: double bass
Martin Parker: percussion
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