Butterfly – Video & Lyrics

Ice melts to water, water turns to steam.
The artist’s creation, started out as a dream.
The seed in the soil becomes the tree and the leaf,
The caterpillar crawls from the egg underneath.

Rules can be broken; beliefs can be dropped.
New language spoken, thought patters dropped.
The closed it can open, the straight can be bent
And even cold-hearted killers have been known to repent.

Anything can change, as Mother Nature knows.
Leaves turn rusty red – the winding river flows.
All you’ve got to do is follow it, wherever it goes –
And deep inside the chrysalis the butterfly grows. 

The empty cocoon will soon break down in the mud,
The butterfly waits as his wings fill with blood.
He doesn’t look back and he doesn’t ask why,
He just opens up his painted wings and flies to the sky. 

Fields they are burning, smoke chokes the air –
Black scorched and charred; the earth laid bare.
Well it’s planting in the springtime, summer harvesting and then
It’s back to the beginning, start all over again.

Every living cell holds the matrix inside,
Programmed to grow, multiply and divide –
Ten thousand things, in the cycle of Tao –
Rising and falling in the ever present now.

Anything can change, as Mother Nature knows,
Leaves turn rusty red – the winding river flows.
All we’ve got to do is follow it, wherever it goes.
And then one day you’ll find out what the butterfly knows.

© Copyright Jez Alborough 2021