Broken Butterflies Lyrics - Lucinda Williams

You wear your anger well and stand 

For all the world to see 

A heavy cloak and one gloved hand 

And no humility 

You stand inside the garden 

And feast on black cherries 

And swallow the manna from heaven 

And spit out the seeds 

You spread your anger on sharp-edged knives 

Cut my skin and make it bleed 

Like pilate in his self righteousness 

You're a traitor and a thief 

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Choking on your unplanned words 

Coughing up your lies 

Tumbling from your mouth a flurry 

Of broken butterflies 

But the blood that flows I cannot hide 

That blood that covers me 

Nourishes the butterflies 

And they are healed and are set free 

I wish you had what Ruth possessed 

But then I don't expect that of you 

Grace and honor and faithfulness 

And the love that you refuse 

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Will you ever learn to just forgive 

Will you open your beautiful eyes 

And bleed the way Christ did 

And fix the broken butterflies