Butterfly Lyrics

[Chorus]
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby


[Verse 1]
Such a sexy, sexy pretty little thing
Fierce nipple pierce, you got me sprung with your tongue ring
And I ain't gonna lie 'cause your loving gets me high
So to keep you by my side, there's nothing that I won't try
Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill
Time is passin', I'm askin', "Could this be real?"
'Cause I can't sleep, I can't hold still
The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal
I can feel, too much is never enough
You're always there to lift me up when these times get rough
I was lost, now I'm found ever since you've been around
You're the woman that I want, so yo, I'm puttin' it down

[Chorus]
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy
[Verse 2]
I don't deserve you unless it's some kind of hidden message
To show me life is precious, then I guess it's true
But to tell the truth, I really never knew 'til I met you
See I was lost and confused, twisted and used up
Knew a better life existed, but thought that I missed it
My lifestyle's wild, I was livin' like a wild child
Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files

So yo, what's happenin' now?
I see the sun breakin' down into dark clouds
And a vision of you standin' out in a crowd, so

[Chorus]
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy

[Verse 3]
Hey sugar mama, come and dance with me
The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me
Whatever tickles your fancy
Girl, it's me and you like Sid and Nancy
So sexy, almost evil
Talkin' 'bout butterflies in my head
I used to think that happy endings were only in the books I read
But you made me feel alive when I was almost dead
You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase
And as far as I can see it don't get better than this
So butterfly, here is a song and it's sealed with a kiss
And a thank you, miss
[Breakdown]
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
Uh huh, uh huh

[Chorus]
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy
Come my lady, come-come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Come my lady, you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake, you make me go crazy

[Outro]
Come and dance with me (Yeah)
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me (Yeah)
Come and dance with me, uh-ha, uh-ha
Come and dance with me (Yeah)
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me (Yeah)
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me (Yeah)
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me

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About

Genius Annotation

According to The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Crazy Town’s third single was written by Seth “Shifty Shellshock” Binzer after his girlfriend heard the “male chauvinistic” songs the band was working on at the time like “Lollipop Porn” and asked, “Is this what you’re like?” This inspired him to write something “sweet and nice to a girl I cared about.” Her personal collection of butterflies inspired the chorus' lyrics.

Musically, the song was based around a sample of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song “Pretty Little Ditty”. They cleared the sample as a way to “stay true to [their] hip-hop roots and pay homage to a great band.”

The band’s first two singles did not chart and the band was on the verge of calling it quits after eight months of stressful, relentless touring. But after “Butterfly” was featured in the film Saving Silverman and on an episode of ER, the song began to cross over on to Top 40 radio. It debuted on the Hot 100 in January and topped the chart for two non-consecutive weeks in March/April of 2001 – later becoming the #29 song of the year.

Unfortunately, Crazy Town has not had another US hit, giving them the label of ‘one-hit wonder’ there. The track also reached the top 10 in several other countries.

Q&A

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What did Crazy Town say about "Butterfly"?
Genius Answer

Seth “Shifty Shellshock” Binzer explains in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits:

We were writing songs like ‘Lollipop Porn’ when there was no girlfriend and all of a sudden I was in this relationship. I was in love and she was asking, ‘What’s up with all these lyrics? Is this what you’re like?’ So that made me come up with the concept of writing a song to her. Instead of writing a male chauvinistic song, I was going to write something sweet and nice to a girl I cared about. I was living with her and I’d started bringing home butterflies because she had a collection. I was thinking, what am I going to call this song and I’m lying on the bed looking at the ceiling and there’s a big butterfly hanging over me. I had the beginning of the hook and that’s all I had for a week. I was making a left onto Doheny off Santa Monica Boulevard and for some reason I said, ‘You’re my butterfly, sugar baby.’"

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