Butterfly
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  • Honey
  • Butterfly
  • My All
  • The Roof
  • Fourth of July
  • Breakdown
  • Babydoll
  • Close My Eyes
  • Whenever You Call
  • Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)
  • The Beautiful Ones
  • Outside
  • Honey (So So Def Radio Mix)*
  • Honey (Def Club Mix)*


  • Honey
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    Verse 1

    Honey you can have me
    When you want me
    If you simply ask me to be there
    And you're the only one who
    Makes me come running
    'Cause what you got is far
    Beyond compare

    And it's just like honey
    When your love comes over me
    Oh baby I've got a dependancy
    Always strung out for another
    Taste of your honey

    Chorus 1

    It's like honey when it washes over me
    You know sugar never ever was so seet
    And I'm dying for you, crying for you, I adore you
    One hit of your love addicted me
    Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
    Don't you see every night and day
    I can hardly wait for another taste of honey

    Honey I can't describe
    How good it feels inside
    Honey I can't describe
    How good it feels inside

    Verse 2

    I can't be elusive
    With your honey
    Because it's blatant
    That I'm feeling you
    And it's too hard for me
    To leave abruptly
    'Cause you're the only thing
    I wanna do

    And it's just like honey
    When your love comes over me
    Oh baby I've got a dependancy
    Always strung out for another
    Taste of honey

    Chorus 2

    It's like honey when it washes over me
    You know sugar never ever was so sweet
    And I'm dying for you crying for you I adore you
    One hit of your love addicted me
    Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
    Don't you see every night and day
    I can hardly wait for another taste of honey



    Butterfly
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    Lyrics: Mariah Carey
    Music: Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff

    Verse 1
    When you love someone so deeply
    They become your life
    Its easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside
    Blindly I imagined I could
    Keep you under glass
    Now I understand to hold you
    I must open up my hands
    And watch you rise

    Chorus 1
    Spread your wings and prepare to fly
    For you have become a butterfly
    Fly abandonedly into the sun
    If you should return to me
    We truly were meant to be
    So spread your wings and fly
    Butterfly

    Verse 2
    I have learned that beauty
    Has to flourish in the light
    Wild horses run unbridled
    Or their spirit dies
    You have given me the courage
    To be all that I can
    And I truly feel your heart will
    Lead you back to me when you're
    Ready to land

    Chorus 2
    Spread your wings and prepare to fly
    For you have become a butterfly
    Fly abandonedly into the sun
    If you should return to me
    We truly were meant to be
    So spread your wings and fly
    Butterfly

    Bridge
    I can't pretend these tears
    Aren't over flowing steadily
    I can't prevent this hurt from
    Almost overtaking me
    But I will stand and say goodbye
    For you'll never be mine
    Until you know the way it feels to fly

    Chorus 3
    Spread your wings and prepare to fly
    For you have become a butterfly
    Fly abandonedly into the sun (Fly...to the sun)
    If you should return to me (I will know you're mine)
    We truly were meant to be (Spread your wings and fly)
    So spread your wings and fly
    Butterfly



    My All
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    Lyrics: Mariah Carey
    Music : Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff


    Verse 1
    I am thinking of you
    In my sleepless solitude tonight
    If it's wrong to love you
    Then my heart just won't let me be right
    'Cause I've drowned in you
    And I won't pull through
    Without you by my side

    Chorus 1
    I'd give my all to have
    Just one more night with you
    I'd risk my life to feel
    Your body next to mine
    'Cause I can't go on
    Living in the memory of our song
    I'd give my all for your love tonight

    Verse 2
    Baby can you feel me
    Imagining I'm looking in your eyes
    I can see you clearly
    Vividly emblazoned in my mind
    And yet you're so far
    Like a distant star
    I'm wishing on tonight

    Chorus 2
    I'd give my all to have
    Just one more night with you
    I'd risk my life to feel
    Your body next to mine
    'Cause I can't go on
    Living in the memory of our song
    I'd give my all for your love tonight

    ** Guitar Break

    Chorus 3
    I'd give my all to have
    Just one more night with you
    I'd risk my life to feel
    Your body next to mine
    'Cause I can't go on
    Living in the memory of our song
    I'd give my all for your love tonight
    Give my all for your love
    Tonight



    The Roof
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    Lyrics: M. Carey
    Music : M. Carey, J.C. Oliver, S. Bames,
    C. Rooney, A. Jahnson, K. Muchita.


    Verse 1
    It wasn't raining yet
    But it was definitely a little misty on
    That warm November night
    And my heart was pounding
    My inner voice resounding
    Begging me to turn away
    But I just had to see your face
    To feel alive
    And then you casually walked in the room
    And I was twisted in the web
    Of my desire for you
    (And I was twisted)
    My apprehension blew away
    I only wanted you
    To taste my sadness
    As you kissed me in the dark

    Chorus 1
    Every time I feel the need
    I envision you caressing me
    And go back in time
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    On the rooftop that rainy night

    Verse 2
    And so we finished the Moet and
    started feeling liberated
    And I surrendered as you took me
    In your arms
    I was so caught up in the moment
    I couldn't bear to let you go yet
    So I threw caution to the wind
    And started listening to my longing heart
    And then you softly pressed your lips to mine
    And feelings surfaced I'd suppressed
    For such a long time
    (And I was lifted)
    And for a while I forgot
    The sorrow and the pain
    And melted with you as we stood
    There in the rain

    Chorus 2
    Every time I feel the need
    I envision you caressing me
    And go back in time
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    On the rooftop that rainy night
    Every time I feel the need
    I envision you caressing me
    And go back in time
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    On the rooftop that rainy night

    Bridge
    Last night I dreamed that I
    Whispered the words I love you
    And touched you so very
    Subtly as we were kissing goodbye
    (Pretty baby - How I'm missing you)

    Chorus 3
    Every time I feel the need
    I envision you caressing me
    (Envision you caressing me)
    And go back in time
    (I go back)
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    On the rooftop that rainy night
    (On the roof that rainy night)

    Chorus 4
    Every time I feel the need
    (When I feel the need)
    I envision you caressing me
    (I envision you over and over and over again)
    And go back in time
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    (It was oh so sweet you and I)
    On the rooftop that rainy night
    (On that rainy night)

    Chorus 5
    Every time I feel the need
    (Last nigth I had the strangest dream...)
    I envision you caressing me
    (It was actually quite symbolic)
    And go back in time
    (As I whispered...That I loved you)
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    (...very subtly)

    Chorus 6
    Every time I feel the need
    I envision you caressing me
    And go back in time
    To relieve the splendor of you and I
    On the rooftop that rainy night



    Fourth Of July
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    Lyrics: M. Carey
    Music : M. Carey, W. Afanasieff


    Intro
    Trembling
    Starry eyed
    As you put your hand in mine...

    Verse 1
    It was twilight
    On the Fourth of July
    Sparkling colors were
    Strewn across the sky
    And we sat close enough
    That we just barely touched
    While roman candles
    Went soaring above us and baby

    Chorus 1
    Then you put your hand in mine
    And we wandered away
    I was trembling inside
    But I wanted to stay
    Pressed against you there and leave the world behind
    On that Fourth of july

    Verse 2
    So starry eyed
    On the flowery hillside
    Breathless and fervid
    Amid the dandelions
    As it swept over me
    Like the wind trough the trees
    I felt you sigh with a
    Sweet intensity and baby

    Chorus 2
    Then you put your hand in mine
    And we floated away
    Delicately lay entwined
    In an intimate daze
    A crescent moon began to shine
    And I wanted to stay
    Tangled up with you among the fireflies
    On that Fourth of july

    Bridge
    Thunder clouds
    Hung around
    So threateningly
    Ominously hovering
    And the sky
    Opened wide
    Showering

    Chorus 3
    Then you put your hand in mine
    And we ran from the rain
    Tentatively kissed goodnight
    And went our separate ways
    And I've never truly felt the way that I
    Felt the Fourth of July

    Outro
    Truly I have never felt the same inside
    Like that Fourth of July
    Truly I could never feel the same as I
    Felt that Fourth of July



    Breakdown
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    Lyrics: M. Carey, A. Henderson, C. Scruggs
    Music : M. Carey, Sevie J.


    Verse 1
    You call yesterday to basically say
    That you care for me but that you're just not in love
    Immediatly I pretended to beel similary
    And led you to believe I was O.K.
    To just walk away from the one thing
    That's unyielding and scared to me

    Chorus 1
    Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it
    And I'm going the extremes to prove I'm fine without you
    But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind
    Underneath the guise of a smile gradually I'm dying inside
    Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly
    'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
    So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
    And turn down all the lights and then break down and cry

    Verse 2
    So what do you do when somebody you're devoted to
    Suddenly just stops loving you and it seems they haven't
    got a clue
    Of the pain that rejection is putting you through
    Do you cling to your pride and sing "I will survive"
    Do you lash out and say: "How dare you leave this way"
    Do you hold on in vain as they just slip away

    Chorus 2
    Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it
    And I'm going the extremes to prove I'm fine without you
    But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind
    Underneath the guise of a smile gradually I'm dying inside
    Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly
    'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
    So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
    And turn down all the lights and then break down and cry

    Rap 1 Wish Bone
    Rap 2 Krayzie Bone
    Rap 3 Wish Bone
    Rap 4 Krayzie Bone


    Chorus 3
    Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it
    And I'm going the extremes to prove I'm fine without you
    But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind
    Underneath the guise of a smile gradually I'm dying inside
    Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly
    'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
    So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
    And turn down all the lights and then break down and cry



    Babydoll
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    Lyrics: M. Carey, M. Elliot
    Music : M. Carey, C. Rooney, Sevie J.


    Verse 1
    It's 2:11 and I'm stressing
    Watching TV in my hotel suite
    I check my service every second
    At 2:10 you still hadn't called me
    So I'm gonna leave my cell phone
    Turned on in my purse by the bed
    And before I fall asleep
    I guess I'll just check my machine
    Again and again because I'm
    Obsessing on you

    Chorus 1
    I wanna be your babydoll
    Wrap me up nice and tight
    Love me through the night
    Come lay me down
    Enfold me in your arms
    Cover me with velvet kisses
    Rock me on and on
    And whisper softly to me
    You wanna be my babydoll

    Verse 2
    Zoning out thinking about
    You and me between the sheets
    I want to get intimate
    But you're not within my reach
    So I'll have a little more wine
    And I'll try to drink you
    Out of my head
    And I'll lay awake a while
    'Til I'm high enough I can
    Forget about you until
    I wake up again

    Chorus 2
    I wanna be your babydoll
    Wrap me up nice and tight
    Love me through the night
    Come lay me down
    Enfold me in your arms
    Cover me with velvet kisses
    Rock me on and on
    And whisper softly to me
    You wanna be my babydoll

    Verse 3
    Slipping into dreams
    I feel my love surround you
    My subconscious seems
    To weave itself around you
    Do you care for me
    Beyond idolization
    Tell me how you feel
    But don't keep me at bay
    'Cause I won't be waiting long

    Chorus 3
    I wanna be your babydoll
    Wrap me up nice and tight
    Love me through the night
    Come lay me down
    Enfold me in your arms
    Cover me with velvet kisses
    Rock me on and on
    And whisper softly to me
    You wanna be my babydoll

    Chorus 4
    I wanna be your babydoll
    Wrap me up nice and tight
    Love me through the night
    Come lay me down
    Enfold me in your arms
    Cover me with velvet kisses
    Rock me on and on
    And cuddle up next to me
    C'mon and be my babydoll



    Close My Eyes
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    Lyrics: Mariah Carey
    Music : Mariah Carey, W. Afanasieff


    Verse 1
    I was wayward child
    With the weight of the world
    That I held deep inside
    Life was a winding road
    And I learned many things
    Little ones shouldn't know

    Chorus 1
    But I closed my eyes
    Steadied my feet on the ground
    Raised my head to the sky
    And though time's rolled by
    Still feel like that child
    As I look at the moon
    Maybe I grew up
    A little too soon

    Verse 2
    Funny how one can learn
    To grow numb to the madness
    And block it away
    I left the worst unsaid
    Let it all dissipate
    And I try to forget

    Chorus 2
    As I closed my eyes
    Steadied my feet on the ground
    Raised my head to the sky
    And the time rolled by
    Still feel like a child
    As I look at the moon
    Maybe I grew up
    A little too soon

    Bridge
    Nearing the edge
    Oblivious I almost
    Fell right over
    A part of me
    Will never be quite able
    To feel stable
    That woman-child falling inside
    Was on the verge of fading
    Thankfully I
    Woke up in time

    Verse 3
    Guardian angel I
    Sail away on an ocean
    With you by my side
    Orange clouds roll by
    They burn into your image
    And you're still alive
    (You're always alive)

    Chorus 3
    As I close my eyes
    Steady my feet on the ground
    Raise my head to the sky
    And though time rolls by
    Still feel like a child
    As I look at the moon
    Maybe I grew up
    A little too soon



    Whenever You Call
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    Lyrics: Mariah Carey
    Music : Mariah Carey, W. Afanasieff


    Verse 1
    Love wandered inside
    Stronger than you
    Stronger than I
    And now that it has begun
    We cannot turn back
    We can only turn into one

    Chorus 1
    I won't ever be too far away to feel you
    And I won't hesitate at all
    Whenever you call
    And I'll always remeber
    The part of you so tender
    I'll be the one to catch you fall
    Whenever you call

    Verse 2
    And I'm truly inspired
    Finding my soul
    There in your eyes
    And you
    Have opened my heart
    And lifted me inside
    By showing me yourself
    Undisguised

    Chorus 2
    I won't ever be too far away to feel you
    And I won't hesitate at all
    Whenever you call
    And I'll always remeber
    The part of you so tender
    I'll be the one to catch you fall
    Whenever you call

    Bridge
    And I will breathe for you each day
    Comfort you through all the pain
    Gently kiss your fears away
    You can turn to me and cry
    Always understand that I
    Give you all I am inside

    Chorus 3
    I won't ever be too far away to feel you
    And I won't hesitate at all
    Whenever you call

    Chorus 4
    I won't ever be too far to feel you
    And I won't hesitate at all
    Whenever you call
    And I'll always remeber
    The part of you so tender
    I'll be the one to catch you fall
    Whenever you call



    Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)
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    Lyrics: M. Carey, E. John, B. Taupin
    Music: M. Carey, D. Morales



    Don't be afraid to fly
    Spread your wings
    Open up a door
    So much more inside

    Don't
    Be afraid to fly
    Come spread your wings and just fly with me and you'll see why
    It's alright to
    Fly
    Fly
    Just fly
    Just fly
    Don't be afraid
    Don't let your spirit die
    Just

    Chorus (repeat):
    Spread your wings and prepare to fly
    For you have become a butterfly

    Don't be afraid
    Don't be afraid
    Don't be afraid to fly
    Fly
    So much more inside
    Come spread your wings and just flutter right into the sun

    Don't be afraid to fly
    Don't be afraid to just fly
    You
    You have become a butterfly
    Don't be afraid to just fly
    (Spread your wings)
    Prepare to fly

    Butterflies
    Are free to fly
    Fly away
    Bye bye
    Butterflies
    (You have become a butterfly)
    Are free to fly
    Fly away
    Bye bye
    Bye bye
    Bye bye
    Butterflies
    Are free to fly
    Bye bye

    Spread your wings and prepare to fly
    For you have become a butterfly
    Spread your wings and prepare to fly
    (Spread your wings and fly)
    For you have become a butterfly
    Fly away
    Fly away
    Fly away
    Fly away
    Bye bye
    Fly away
    Fly
    Bye bye
    Fly away
    Fly
    Butterfly



    The Beautiful Ones
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    Lyrics: Prince
    Music : Prince


    Baby, baby, baby
    What's it gonna be?
    Baby, baby, baby
    Is it him or is it me?
    Don't make me waste my time
    Don't make me lose my mind baby
    Baby, baby, baby
    Can't you stay with me tonight?
    Oh baby, baby, baby
    Don't my kisses please you right?
    You were so hard to find
    The beautiful ones, they hurt you
    Every time
    Paint a perfect picture
    Bring to life a vision in one's mind
    The beautiful ones
    (The beautiful ones)
    Always smash the picture
    Always every time
    If I told you baby
    That I was in love with you
    Oh Baby, baby, baby
    If we got married
    Would that be cool?
    You make me so confused
    The beautiful ones
    You always seems to lose



    Outside
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    Lyrics: Mariah Carey
    Music : M. Carey W. Afanasieff


    Verse 1
    It's hard to explain
    Inherently it's just always been strange
    Neither here or there
    Always somewhat out of place everywhere
    Ambiguous
    Without a sense of belonging to touch
    Somewhere halfway
    Feeling there's no one completely the same

    Chorus 1
    Standing alone
    Eager to just
    Believe it's good enough to be what
    You really are
    But in your heart
    Uncertainty forever lies
    And you'll always be
    Somewhere on the
    Outside

    Verse 2
    Early on, you face
    The realization you don't
    have a space
    Where you fit in
    And recognize you
    Were born to exist

    Chorus 2
    Standing alone
    Eager to just
    Believe it's good enough to be what
    You really are
    But in your heart
    Uncertainty forever lies
    And you'll always be
    Somewhere on the
    Outside

    And it's hard
    And it's hard
    And it's hard

    Bridge
    Irreversibly
    Falling in between
    And it's hard
    And it's hard
    To be understood
    As you are
    As you are
    Oh, and God knows
    That you're standing on your own
    Blind and unguided
    Into a world divided
    You're thrown
    Where you're never quite the same
    Although you try-try and try
    To tell yourself
    You really are
    But in your heart-uncertainty forever lies
    And you'll always be
    Somewhere on the outside
    You'll always be
    Somewhere on the outside



    Honey (So So Def Radio Mix)
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    Lyrics: M. Carey
    Music: M. Carey, B. Robinson, S. Hague, R. Larkins, L. Price
    M. McLaren, F. Perren, A Mizell, B. Gordy, D. Lussier




    Honey (Def Club Mix)
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    Lyrics: M. Carey
    Music: M. Carey, B. Robinson