"Blue Butterfly"
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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Blue butterfly, blue butterfly, come flutter by, come flutter by
Laying your eggs on the gentian stem
How shall your children fare when you're no longer there?
Another family shall foster them

Blue butterfly, blue butterly, come flutter by, come flutter by
Laying your eggs on the gentian leaf
Some of your children may grow up like you someday
Some of your children may come to grief

Ants foraging, ants foraging, come following, come following
Taste of your larvae you know so well
Brought back into the nest, brought where your children rest
Not one of yours, but your tongues can't tell

Feed it the very food meant for your mother's brood
Under your care it will thrive and grow
While you are feeding it, I shall be seeking it
I, who can smell what you still don't know

You shall not hinder me, I know your chemistry
Your jaws shall turn upon your own kin
While you are out of mind, fosterlings I shall find
Eggs of my own I shall place within

Pitiful colony, fools guard your nursery
Now it is twice they have been deceived
Children of butterflies entered with tender lies
Now from their chrysales wasps shall leave

Blue butterfly, blue butterly, come flutter by, come flutter by
Laying your eggs on the gentian leaf
Some of your children may grow up like you someday
Some of your children may come to grief