Broken Butterflies Lyrics

Broken Butterflies lyrics

You wear your anger well and stand
For all the world to see
A heavy cloak
and one gloved hand
And no humility

You stand inside the
garden
And feast on black cherries
And swallow the manna from
heaven
And spit out the seeds

You spread your anger on sharp-edged
knives
Cut my skin and make it bleed
Like pilate in his self
righteousness
You're a traitor and a thief

Choking on your unplanned
words
Coughing up your lies
Tumbling from your mouth a flurry
Of
broken butterflies

But the blood that flows I cannot hide
That blood
that covers me
Nourishes the butterflies
And they are healed and are set
free

I wish you had what Ruth possessed
But then I don't expect that
of you
Grace and honor and faithfulness
And the love that you
refuse

Will you ever learn to just forgive
Will you open your
beautiful eyes
And bleed the way Christ did
And fix the broken
butterflies