Wrapped around the point there’s a garden of flower and scent There flutters a damaged butterfly her wings twisted and bent She rides the breeze close to the edge I hope she won’t fall in She fights her way with broken wing I pray she won’t fall in Perhaps she’ll fly
Standing on the headland there’s a man with beard and frown He stares to the horizon and those boats a-fishing bound His shoes are highly polished but the soles are wearing thin His poems are for a loved one but he’s going to throw them in Perhaps he’ll die, die perhaps he’ll die Perhaps he’ll die, die to a broken man’s song Perhaps he’ll die
This wasn’t in his script nor in his plans He watched a butterfly slip through a trusting hand A trusting hand
Stands a friend of broken man with hand on heart on chest Sees the damaged butterfly and prays for her to rest And rise above the ocean waves and fly with mended wing Land in garden of happiness and never fall in Perhaps she’ll fly, fly perhaps she’ll fly Perhaps she’ll fly, fly to a broken man’s song Fly into the setting sun Fly to a broken man’s song Fly into the setting sun Perhaps she’ll fly