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"Broken Butterflies" by Lucinda Williams From the album "Essence" (2001) Written by Lucinda Williams Tabbed by CJWilky Standard tuning No capo [Intro] C C G Dm C C G Dm C C G Dm C
You Cwear your anger well and stand For Gall the world to see A Dmheavy cloak, that one gloved hand And Cno humility
You Cstand inside the garden And Gfeast on black cherries And Dmswallow the mana from heaven And Cspit out the seeds
You Cspread your anger on sharp edged knives Cut my Gskin and make it bleed Like DmPilate in his self-righteousness You are a Ctraitor and a thief
ChCoking on your unplanned words GCoughing up your lies DmTumbling from your mouth A flurry of Cbroken butterflies
BCroken butterflies They rest their Gwings snapped in two DmOn their way to certain death Their Ccolours gold and blue
With the Cblood that flows I can not hide The Gblood that covers me DmNourishes the butterflies And they are Chealed and are set free
I Cwish you had what Ruth possessed Then I Gdon't expect that of you DmGrace and honour and faithfulness And a Clove that you refused
Will you Cever learn to just forgive Will you Gopen your beautiful eyes And Dmbleed the way Christ did And fix the Cbroken butterflies
COoooh-ooooh ooooh-ooooh GOoooh-ooooh ooooooh DmOoooh-ooooh ooooh-ooooh COoooh-ooooh ooooooh
[Outro] C G Dm C