Butterfly On A Wheel

Butterfly on a wheel by The Mission

from the album Carved in sand

Silver and gold, and it's growing cold

Autumn leaves lay as thick as thieves

Shivers down your spine, chill you to the bone,

cause the mandling wind is the melody that turns your heart to stone

The heat of your breath carvin shadows in the mist

Every angel has the wish, she's never been kissed

A broken dream, haunting in your sleep

Hiding in your smile, a secret you must keep love cuts you deep.

Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

There's no scarlet in you, lay a fair down for me

Sure has got me twined, you can't wrap you arms around a memory

Take warmth from me, cold autumn winds cut sharp as a knife

but in the dark for me you're the candle flame that flikkers to light

Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love will break the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love will break the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Wise men say all is fair in love and war

And there's no right or wrong in the design of love

And I could only watch as the wind crushed your wings

Broken and torn, crushed like a flower under the snow

and like the flower in the spring, love will rise again to heal your wings

Love heals the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love will heal the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love heals the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

Love will heal the wings of a butterfly on a wheel

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Paul Sanders

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

email: sanders@fwi.uva.nl