Verse
F# C#m
Watch me fly,
B F#
Like a rainbow in the sky
C#m B
Winter comes and renders everything
E F# E
In black and white
[Verse 2]
F# C#m
I see all the butterflies,
B F#
You captured on your way
C#m
Chloroform and needles
B E F# E
Pinning wings to your display
[Chorus]
F# E B
You can’t see me,
F# E B
You can’t feel me,
F# E B
You can’t catch me,
F# E B
You can’t touch me,
F# E B
Now,
F# E B F# E B
My Siberian butter fly
[Verse 3]
F# C#m
Across this land,
B F#
There are no nature scenes
C#m B E F#
Instead you drill and pillage everything of beauty.
[Verse 4]
F# C#m
In you biosphere,
B F#
You pin these wings so dear
C#m
If you touch my chitin
B E F# E F#
Surely I will disappear.
[Chorus]
F# E B
You can’t see me,
F# E B
You can’t feel me,
F# E B
You can’t touch me,
F# E B
You can’t keep me,
F# E B
Now,
F# E B F# E B
My Siberian butter-fly
[Bridge]
G# B
You were chasing me through a dream,
E
Origami and gabardine
E
All the fields of my past are
D#m
Shiny glass and steel,
C# B
Every Sunday the local men,
B
Gather up at the barn and,
D#m
When the sun goes down the sky.
E
Is filled with rainbow butterflies.
[Instrumental]
F# C#m7 B F#
F# C#m B E F# E F#
F# C#m B F#
F# C#m B E F# E F#
[Chorus]
F# E B
You can’t see me,
F# E B
You can’t feel me,
F# E B
You can’t keep me,
F# E B
You don’t need me
F# E B
Now,
F# E B F# E B
My Siberian butter-fly
[Outro]
A