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Butterfly Man

from Best Of Friends by Friends

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lyrics

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

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from Best Of Friends, released July 15, 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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