Black Butterfly

Little black butterfly

I see you flying

Little black butterfly

I see you crying

Little black butterfly

Don't you know you're mine?

Don't you know you're mine?

You're mine

I get ideas so dear to me it draws tears, I can't

Believe what I have seen over the years

And am I busy as a bee sweet when murdering a beat?

Free, keep it real, an easy breeze like a tree

That grows and knows what holds it up and flows

Faith in the above an inner spirit in the know

Hunting for the silence while am crouching like a lion

And I'm still defying lies that put you up against Zion

Tell you ain't got the power that can lift you up fighting

Reading finer writings that empower people like lightning

Bolts from the sky in rain showers that brown you

Mystery surrounds you

Who defend you like a marching army heading to slew

Anybody in the garden coming for you

Little black butterfly

I see you flying

Little black butterfly

I see you crying

Little black butterfly

Don't you know you're mine?

Don't you know you're mine?

You're mine

I will remember your name though, I'll forget my own

I'll be willing to meet you where the lilies are growing

When you undo the chains, I won't recall anything

But I'll remember you, child, I'll remember your name

Places, faces, grey days, I'll forget the sky and spaces

When I pass from this plain, I'll forget about this game

I'll forget the wind and rain, the fallen race

The grades, the shame but know this I'll remember your name

My little black butterfly, I'll remember everything you've been through

And all the hardship, I'll remember you

And I'll raise you up on the last day

Little black butterfly

I see you flying

Little black butterfly

I see you crying

Little black butterfly

Don't you know you're mine?

Don't you know you're mine?

You're mine

Don't you know you're mine?

Don't you know it?

Don't you know you're mine?

Don't you know you're mine?

Oh aye, don't you know?

Don't you know you're mine?

Oh, don't you know?