la mariposa

"Say the words you never said
Pray to God that you'll be dead
Before your trial comes and runs you dry

You put the poison in his drink
Back when he was fast asleep"
From then on, love just never felt so deep

But won't you please
Wipe me back to pristine?
Back to when they could love all of me?
And won't you please
Not drop to your knees
When you see how I threw away the key?
La mariposa doesn't fly far from the weeds

All they do is pray everything will be okay
But when I closed my eyes that night
I smiled as I whispered between my cries
Saw the red glimmer from the sky
How can everything be okay
Like they were that day?

But won't you please
Wipe me back to pristine?
Back to when I played in the garden of lost dreams?
And won't you please
Not drop to your knees
When you see all the tricks I had up my sleeve?
La mariposa doesn't fly far from the weeds

We would go on and on about our youthful days
("Say the words you never said")
Did you listen to the same songs I had on replay
("Pray to God that you'll be dead")
And we would go on and on until I felt your touch
("Before your trial comes and runs you dry")
You know, I loved you so much
("You put the poison in his drink")
But the poison looked so pretty with your eyes
("He was fast asleep")
That I thought, "Maybe, this'll turn out alright"

But la mariposa
It always seems to show a
Gavel, when I walked along the precious gravel