Dead Butterfly

from I Don't Wanna Be Famous by Awkward Marina

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ABOUT THE SONG:
-I wrote this before quarantine. It became more relevant in quarantine.
-Dead Butterfly is basically the sad version of the next song on the album, Lazy Ass Bitch.
-The title was inspired by a gorgeous butterfly I saw in my neighborhood many years ago. It was bright blue and green and humongous! But it was also dead on the ground, sorry.

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I don't have the energy needed to go outside
Bedroom filling up with my demons, in blankets I hide

When they say you've got potential
But it's too late to try
Wasted beauty, like a dead butterfly
When your wings weigh like water
Do you stop to wonder why
You've thrown it all away, you're a dead butterfly
You're a dead butterfly

This life, must be something that's in the screens that keeps us down
We're all depressed and dreary and bedridden,
No motivation now

When they say you've got potential
But it's too late to try
Wasted beauty, like a dead butterfly
When your wings weigh like water
Do you stop to wonder why
You've thrown it all away, you're a dead butterfly
You're a dead butterfly

Can't move from this stale room
Dried out before you left the cocoon
You're future's gold,
but all you see is time and time again
the inside of the wall

When they say you've got potential
But it's too late to try
Wasted beauty, like a dead butterfly
When your wings weigh like water
Do you stop to wonder why
You've thrown it all away, you're a dead butterfly
You're a dead butterfly

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from I Don't Wanna Be Famous, released July 1, 2020

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