Butterfly
I got home late
she waited up long
saw her face
didn't take long
for her smile
to light the air between our eyes
and change that sad look on her lips
that asked where I'd been

I didn't believe it
until it just happened
somehow she knew
knew who I would be
knew what love looked like
before she looked at me

Before she was mine
I'd wake up under the covers
all lonely inside and alone on the outside
before she was mine
I didn't see it coming
but it came anyways
she looked in my eyes
and made everything right

Now I walk by the couples holding hands by the lake
Wonder if we aren't alone in having things this great
We probably are
so I'll assume it to be
before you were mine
everyone seemed to be happier than me
tonight I seem to have won them all over
down on one knee
begging you please
be mine forever

Down on my knees
is making me think
that you are who you are
because you were younger once
when nothing was perfect yet
I want you to know how much I would give
to make everything beyond then that

I came home late
cause everything got in my way
but I've learned now that I could never not love you this much
maybe more but never less...
your past could play out differently
but you would be different
I guess that's the closest I could come to loving somebody else
I'd still love you
even if you were less
never change the past for me
just meet me down on my knees
and say you'll be mine forever