for you the silver lining rules the sky like a reigning buddha in your eye the glass is never on its way to empty and I'm frightened dear that someday soon it will be now you can't take me with you 'cause I can't get that high but I will surely miss you goodbye, butterfly for you the flowers grow but never die and comets are just friendly passers-by it's easy to be brave among the darkness for one who doesn't notice when the sun sets now you can't take me with you 'cause I can't get that high but I will surely miss you goodbye, butterfly if tragedy should fall upon the masses you'll just mark the map and head to greener grasses you're rarely down to earth enough to probe it but you look so damn beautiful in orbit now you can't take me with you 'cause I can't get that high but I will surely miss you goodbye, butterfly you can't take me with you 'cause I can't get that high but I will surely miss you goodbye, butterfly yeah, I will surely miss you goodbye, butterfly goodbye, butterfly goodbye, butterfly