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The Wretches Gone Awry

Mine are like the wings of a butterfly
A dusty pair so
Don't you touch them or I'll never fly anywhere

Ever see the wings of a dragonfly?
Paper-thin and cellophane
And quickly broken like the will to live for a mind in pain

You know I can be rid of my time and the moon will always shine
'Cause he knows I need him to walk this vile and crooked line

And you can own all the light in the world and still be blind
And lie and hide away from the people in the world and still be kind

All I ask is you let me be to live like I do
I'll never be part but someday I will pass on through

You can pull the wings from a dragonfly
And you can kill the flight of a butterfly
But you can't harm me for I live with the freedom to decide

Say

Song © 1986 - Happy Rhodes
Music, lyrics, voices, instruments and arrangements - Happy Rhodes
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