Butterfly Bones

When one year ends and another begins and the sky is a shower of sparks With your skinny girls arms with the hairs on their ends like exclamation marks Well I admit I was scared, I felt unprepared if I need you tell me where you'll be You said “It's not surprising, just look to the horizon, it's the circle in the middle is me” A week in the hospital, always sick when you were little, you were brittle like butterfly bones I wish I had been there to run a comb through your hair - it always smelt like smoke and pine cones But then the devil shot through, you got stronger as you grew but they treat you like you're never the same You filled your one good lung and bit down hard on your tongue just to keep yourself from going insane (Not sure about this part...) Oh Oh Oh Oh (Interlude, the verses chords, Darren does much finger picking here in a guitar solo) (Middle 8) And the rides keep on turning And our lives insist on turning And my mind it keeps on learning But I can smell something burning mmm Now in a minute or less I tried to confess every single thing I've learnt so far In a skirt that you'd stolen as the road was unrolling and unreelin' 'neath the wheels of the car No I haven't been drinking, I don't know what I was thinking but it really don't mean a thing She said “do me a favour if you wanna be my saviour then you're gonna have to wait 'til the spring” She said “do me a favour if you wanna be my saviour then you're gonna have to learn how to sing” Thanks, Justin, for getting me hooked on Darren Hanlon!