Butterfly
Lyrics
All of these wings in my past
They were flappin out of my grasp
Every time they flew away they
Were knockin down what wouldn't last
Thought that I was gettin wrecked
Really I was gettin set
All the loves I couldn't catch
Thats my butterfly effect
Led me right here to myself
Wiped the dust off my reflection
Every storm they left inside
Me just rewired my direction
Every almost every exit every us
That never met
Yeah the ones I never kept
Thats my butterfly effect
I was
That quiet kid wide eyed white knuckled
Tryna hide panic behind light chuckles
Dive headfirst in a high tide struggle
Redraw my lines any
Time your sky shuffled
Copy your playlists mirror your slang
Switch up my cadence to
Sit in your frame
Didn't even notice I
Was missin my name
Tryna twist into shape
For a temporary flame
You were a wingbeat
Small shake big break
Had me hydroplanin on a slick heartbreak
Chasin validation like a
Drip I can't shake
Hands off the wheel in
A car with no brakes
You dipped I called it
I'm not worth shit
Played that script til
The plot got sick
Now I sift through the chips
And I spot that glitch
Every time you left
I got more authentic
Wild how a soft
Step off my porch
Felt like the whole sky got scorched
Back then I swear I
Thought I was cursed
Now I look back like
Damn thats the best thing
That happened first
All of these wings in my past
They were flappin out of my grasp
Every time they flew away they
Were knockin down what wouldn't last
Thought that I was gettin wrecked
Really I was gettin set
All the loves I couldn't catch
Thats my butterfly effect
Led me right here to myself
Wiped the dust off my reflection
Every storm they left inside
Me just rewired my direction
Every almost every exit every us
That never met
Yeah the ones I never kept
Thats my butterfly effect
I spent whole nights
Runnin why me loops
Mind in a maze with
The high beams mute
Tryna read lines you were hidin between
Spinnin each scene like I'm
Tied to the noose
But a slight breeze
In the right season
Can rewrite meanings in
The lives we're leadin
Tiny decisions that you make without thinkin
Turn into quakes
When the ground starts sinkin
Door slam cold face
We should slow down
All of
That static was a home grown sound
Back then every silence felt so loud
Now I hear patterns I can't undrown
You were a quick text then
A ghost then a pattern
I was obsessed with the
Loss not the ladder
Now I connect every
Step to the matter
Each time you vanished
My voice got louder
Cause
If you don't bounce
Then I don't pause
If I don't pause
Then I don't talk
If I don't crack
Then I don't spot
The fact I was shrinkin
Just to hold your spot
So yeah you were just passin through
But the aftershock shook every single room
Thought it was the end
Of everything I knew
Turns out it was my
Exit from a smaller view
All of these wings in my past
They were flappin out of my grasp
Every time they flew away they
Were knockin down what wouldn't last
Thought that I was gettin wrecked
Really I was gettin set
All the loves I couldn't catch
Thats my butterfly effect
Led me right here to myself
Wiped the dust off my reflection
Every storm they left inside
Me just rewired my direction
Every almost every exit every us
That never met
Yeah the ones I never kept
Thats my butterfly effect
If youd have stayed id
Still be shrinkin for attention
Bitin back the truth just
To keep you from flinchin
Now I talk to my reflection like
I got you thats a given
'Cause losin all the wrong ones
Is what made me start livin
So heres to the wings that left
To the calls that never sent back
To the futures that we penciled in
Then crossed out when the ink cracked
I don't hate you i
Don't want you back
You were just weather
On a longer track
Tiny little tremors that youll probably forget
But they shook me awake
And I'm not sleepin again
Thats my butterfly effect