Goodbye, My Fragile Butterfly

from The Rise of the Oak by Alabaster Theatre

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I brought an ibis to you when you died.
I saw red silk pouring from you to the street.

The sky wasn’t shy,
It laid it’s head down and cried when you died
Tonight the hills cast their weight,
And opened up the gates of death for you,
You’re true

Now they’ve decided to strike and steal all the life
From inside your bones
So don’t moan.

We’ve taken what we gave
To you and gone away,
My child you’ve passed away,
Today

Come my child you’ve no right to complain
About what we stole away,
No way

It was time
And since this world is mine,
You’re mine to take away,
Someday

All things that begin must end,
All from void and back again,
Some were born to live a life,
While you were born to take the knife

A newborn lamb caught in the snow
All the wisest wisest know,
It’s not life that makes you live,
but what it is that you can give

Come my fragile butterfly,
Fly into the dark and die
Come my fragile butterfly,
Fly into the dark and die

Fly into the dark and die,

Fly into the dark and die.

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from The Rise of the Oak, released May 26, 2005

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Alabaster Theatre Wellington, New Zealand

Alabaster Theatre was an alternative-rock band active between 2001 and 2008. Alabaster Theatre included Lester Litchfield, Duncan Nairn, Brad Gallen, Moritz Decker, Bernie Gruschow, Chris Kenny, Aean Campbell and Polina Outkina. Thank you to everyone who made our time with the band a good one, and best of luck avoiding the circus master's whip. ... more

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