Jay explains how he came up with the song Butterfly during their 2003 Montreux Jazz Festival set.
Interesting thing to note is this was the last song produced for the album before it’s release in 1999.
Since Jay had infamously scrapped & re-recorded some unreleased material produced in 1998, d...
[Intro]
Little butterfly, come back to me
Come back to me
[Verse 1]
Everything that I want
Is written on your face
(I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it)
So take me where you want to
It's your love that I chase
(I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it)
Now you got something so beautiful
(I want it, I want it)
And the way you move me baby
It's like no other girl
[Chorus]
I feel like I'm a butterfly in June
So colour in my wings, and let me hold your hand
I could be the sun and you could be my moon
But all you ever say is catch me if you can
Feel like a butterfly
Searching in the summer sky
A perfect love's so hard to find, yeah, yeah
Little butterfly, come back to me (x4)
[Verse 2]
Honey
You're pushing a condition
And I don't mind
(I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it)
I think you're my addiction
But that's alright
(I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it)
That's alright
You got to slow down
I can't keep up with you
(I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it)
And all the other butterflies
They don't love like we do
(I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it)
[Chorus]
I feel like I'm a butterfly in June
So colour in my wings, and let me hold your hand
I could be the sun and you could be my moon
But all you ever say is catch me if you can
Feel like a butterfly
Searching in the summer sky
A perfect love's so hard to find
Little butterfly, come back to me (x4)
[Outro]
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la (x2)
Oh, little butterfly
Butterfly was written by Toby Smith & Jay Kay.
Jamiroquai released Butterfly on Tue Jun 08 1999.