Yellow+Butterfly+by+Meg+and+Dia

Yellow Butterfly by Meg and Dia

She was just five years old. A slightly moody day. She couldn't stay away, from that rivers edge and I. I turn my back to count. All the daffodil seas that surrounded. I close my eyes, and then heard the water wake up.

And I, I can still hear that scream, It's still lingering, in the air, everywhere. "Mother, please save me, grab my hand" (I can't I can't) I can still see that face, sink beneath the waves. Baby please, breath for me, give me time I am here.

Where did you go? Where'd you go? Where'd you go? Hey, where'd you go?

Were the angels that lonely? Couldn't they suffice for anybody else? Can't everybody just lie to me. She's home, she's home. Crying for me now. Every night on a Monday, I will visit the same spot that I hate. Yes the place that baby loved, and now she can taste it, oh it took her away.

It's been five years since then. And when it hits September.. I'll feel like I'm dying again. Ian still won't even talk to me, talk to me! Isn't this pain, guilt enough? I can't even look out the window, without seeing reflections distorted in the sun.

(Repeat: And I can still hear that scream...)

And the pain hits me like gunshot. And I'm heading on the way to the floor, I hear her name and it kills me. Oh, Bottles up, Bottles up, Bottles up.

And I'm trying my best to hurt me. Ian says it's never enough. A razor to the wrist for each unshed tear, cough it up, drink it up, drink it up.

So I had a coma, when I crashed my car in the lake. I saw your face down there I knew, it was not a mistake. So I went to the doctor. I told him, oh my heart will break, If I couldn't see you. He just, gave me more pills.

But, I saw you up there. Still floating by the river. God, you always loved that river. I bet your heaven looks just like it.

Then I'll like it too, even though it scares me now. But when I'm with you. I'll be just fine, I'll be just fine.

We can sit, we can talk about, talk about...Butterflies. Butterflies. Butterflies.

EXPLANATION: This song really spoke to me, and I could tell the whole story just from the lyrics...at least i think there is a story. So if I was telling the story of the song, it would be like this: This song is about a woman who lost her five year old daughter. Her daughter Molly fell into the river when Sarah,the mother, was not looking. Molly was crying for help and Sarah ran to the edge of the river. Sarah stretched out instructing Molly to grab her hand, but Molly couldn't reach her. Five years after the accident and she still feels guilty about how she couldn't save her daughter. She still remembers that day as if it is haunting her. She can still remember her face when she sunk beneath the water and the sound of her voice screaming for her. Ever since Molly died, Ian, the father, refuses to talk to her, as if he is blaming her for his daughter's death. She asks herself, "Isn't this pain guilt enough?", which translates to me as, "Why is everybody treating me like this? I already feel bad about it, why make me feel any worse?". She crashed her car into a lake causing her to go into a state of a coma. While she is in a coma, she is imagining being with her daughter. But then she wakes up and realizes it is not real. She starts trying to kill herself by cutting her wrists. In the end of the song, she says that they will be together again in heaven and will talk about butterflies.

Frankly, I don't get what the title has to do with the song but.....okay!