Butterfly Tattoo
Unrequited Longing: A Butterfly's Flight of Love and Loss
Lyrics
I love your hair
I admire your hair.
I love that gown
I appreciate the gown you're wearing.
If only I wasn't afraid to talk to you
Expressing regret about hesitating to approach you due to fear.
You'd take my hand, and we'd dance the night away
Imagining a scenario where you would hold hands and dance together.
Where you'd be mine, and there would be no yesterday
Envisioning a future where the speaker and you are together without past issues.
Talk is very cheap, and I am weaker than social conventions
Reflecting on the speaker's social anxiety and weakness in breaking conventions.
Nothing left to do but drift far apart
Acceptance of the inevitability of growing distant.
Somewhere inside of my mind
Feeling a sense of loss and separation within the mind.
That's where your image is
Your image is deeply ingrained in the speaker's thoughts.
Etched into all time
Your presence is remembered throughout all time.
Even though I never even caught your name
Despite not knowing your name, there's a reason for the speaker to love you.
There's a reason to love you
There's a genuine cause to love you.
Reason to hold you
Reasons for holding onto you emotionally.
Reason to want you
Desire and longing for you.
Reason to want the same
Wishing for mutual feelings and desires.
Days turned inside you
Time seems to revolve around thoughts of you.
I had your attention but never did mention the way I felt
Regret for not expressing feelings despite having your attention.
And now you're gone and I'm alone
Feeling lonely after you have left.
Nothing like the regrets and the tension
Reflecting on the weight of regrets and tension.
Somewhere inside of my mind
Similar to line 8, reiterating a sense of loss and separation within the mind.
That's where your image is
Reiteration of your image being deeply ingrained in the speaker's thoughts.
Etched into all time
Reiteration that your presence is remembered throughout all time.
Even though I never even caught your name
Despite not knowing your name, there's still a reason for the speaker to love you.
There's a reason to love you
Reaffirming a genuine cause to love you.
Reason to hold you
Reiteration of reasons for holding onto you emotionally.
Reason to want you
Reiteration of desire and longing for you.
Reason to want the same
Reiteration of the wish for mutual feelings and desires.
So much for love, so much for love
Expressing disappointment or disillusionment with love.
I thought you'd be the one
Initial belief that you would be the special one.
I thought you'd be the one
Repetition of the belief that you would be the one.
Who could shake me up from this rut
Anticipation that you could bring excitement and change to the speaker's life.
But the stillness of my tongue shot me in the foot
Regret for remaining silent and not expressing feelings, leading to a negative outcome.
As much as I want it to be untrue
Expressing a desire for the unfortunate situation to be untrue.
I am nothing without you
Feeling incomplete or lacking without your presence.
Every butterfly needs to fly
Metaphorically stating that everyone, like a butterfly, needs to experience freedom or change.
Every butterfly needs to fly
Repetition of the idea that every individual needs to go through transformations.
Every butterfly needs to fly
Repetition of the metaphor, emphasizing the universal need for change or growth.
Every butterfly needs to fly
Reiteration of the idea that everyone, like a butterfly, needs to experience freedom or change.
So much for love, so much for love
Expressing disappointment or disillusionment with love, similar to line 28.
I thought you'd be the one
Repetition of the initial belief that you would be the special one.
I thought you'd be the
Repetition of the belief that you would be the one.
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