Butterfly Bones - Darren Hanlon

When one year ends and another begins

And the sky is a shower of sparks

With your skinny girl arms with

The hairs on their ends like exclamation marks

Well I admit I was scared

I felt unprepared if I need you tell me where you'll be

You said it's not surprising just look to the horizon

It's the circle in the middle is me

A week in the hospital always sick when you were little

You were brittle like butterfly bones

I wish I had been there to run a comb through your hair

It always smelt like smoke and pine cones

But then the devil shot through

You got stronger as you grew

But they treat you like you're never the same

You filled your one good lung

And bit down hard on your tongue just

To keep yourself from going insane

And the rides keep on turning

And our lives insist on turning

And my mind it keeps on learning

But I can smell something burning

Now in a minute or less

I tried to confess every single thing

I've learnt so far

In a skirt that you'd stolen as the road was unrolling

And unreelin' neath the wheels of the car

No I haven't been drinking

I don't know what I was thinking

But it really don't mean a thing

She said do me a favor if you wanna be my savior

Then you're gonna have to wait 'til the spring

She said do me a favor if you wanna be my savior

Then you're gonna have to learn how to sing