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Intro: C# E A B
C# C#
It's a good year for a murder
E B
She's praying to Jesus, she's pulling the trigger
C# C#
There's no tears, cause he's not here
E B
She washes her hands and she fixes the dinner,
C# B
But soon they'll be coming to rush her away
E B
And no ones so sure if her crime had a reason
A
The reasons like seasons
E
They constantly change,
C#
And the seasons of last year
B A
Like reasons have floated away
A C#
Away with this spilled milk
B A
Away with this dirty dish water, away
C# B
Seventeen years and all that he gave was a daughter
C# E
B C# E
'It's me and the moon,' she says
B C# E B
'And I've got no trouble with that,
C# E B
but I am a butterfly, but you wouldn't let me die'
A
'It's me and the moon,' she says
C# C#
And it's over, but just started
E
The blood stained the carpet
B
Her heart like a crystal
C# C#
She's lucid and departed
E B A
A life left behind, she can find in her mind gone away
A C#
Away with these nightmares
B
Away with suburbia
A
Shake down away
A C#
You marry a role and
B
You give up your soul till you break down
C# E
B C# E
'It's me and the moon,' she says
B C# E B
'And I've got no trouble with that,
C# E B
but I am a butterfly, but you wouldn't let me die'
A
'It's me and the moon,' she says
C# B E
But what do you say we go for a ride?
C# B A
What do you say we get high?
C# B A C#
But I'm so tired of days that feel like the night
C# E
B C# E
'It's me and the moon,' she says
B C# E B
'And I've got no trouble with that,
C# E B
but I am a butterfly, but you wouldn't let me die'
C# E B
but I am a butterfly, but you wouldn't let me die'
C# E B
I am a butterfly
C# E B
I am a butterfly
C# E B
I am a butterfly'
C# E B
A B C#
Written by Andrew McMahon