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Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

I was thinking about Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' 1967 drug bust for hash, overturned on appeal and the '...breaking a butterfly on a wheel' quote from The Times newspaper, of all places! So, although there was no song about that made [as far as I know], I have a few tracks with a butterfly/butterflies in the lyrics. They all have a psychedelic vibe and I wondered if any of you could suggest any others?

So far I've got:
1. Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly of Love [full live version]



2. Pearls Before Swine - Butterflies



3. Willie Nelson - Butterfly



4. The Verve - Catching the Butterfly



5. Istvan Sky Kék Ég, Estas Tonne, Pablo Arellano, Indrė Kuliešiūtė - Song of the Butterfly



Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Check out The Jam-Butterfly Collector on YT its certainly got a psyche vibe to it to my olde ears

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Here's another:

6. Kinobe - Lucidity



And another [thanks Phil!]

7. The Jam {Live} - The Butterfly Collector



8.Lenny Kravitz - Butterfly



Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Jimi Hendrix little wing. The hollies butterfly. Genesis suppers ready..

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Just did a search of song titles and came up with these..

Freak Scene - Butterfly Dream
Guns & Butter - Elysium's Butterfly Comes
Hammers - Little Butterfly
Devendra Banhart - Lazy Butterfly
Nicky James - Silver Butterfly
Pink Floyd - Butterfly
Quill - Yellow Butterfly
Shocking Blue_The Butterfly and I
Steaming Coils-Butterfly's Color
Wade+Nationals - Butterfly
Wildflower - Butterfly
Bread, Love & Dreams - Butterflyland
Can-Butterfly
Catch - Dandelion And The Butterfly
Fat Mattress - Iridescent Butterfly

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

My pal Jonder came up with this list
PSYCHEDELIC songs with BUTTERFLIES in the title:
"Butterflies" by Pearls Before Swine
"Butterflies And Bees" by The Troggs
"Butterfly" by Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett)
"Butterfly" by Green Milk From The Planet Orange
"Butterfly" by The Fox (Canada, 1969)
"Butterfly" by The Marmalade
"Butterfly Farm" by Madder Lake
"Butterfly Fly" by Jacksons Garden
"Butterfly Dance" by Kevin Ayers
"Beautiful Butterfly" by Baldwin (1967)
"Southern Butterfly" by Tim Hardin
"Butterfly Boys" by Procol Harum
"Iron Butterfly Theme" by Iron Butterfly
"Yellow Butterfly" by Quill (Australia, 1970)
"Red Haired Butterfly by Yeti (Germany, 1997)
"Red Headed Butterflies" by Stephen Brodsky
"Iridescent Butterfly" by Fat Mattress
"Rusty Butterfly" by Schwarz
"Golden Butterfly" by Puzzle (1969)
"Butterfly High" by The Paper Fortress
"Silver Butterfly" by Nicky James
"Butterfly Lake" by Paul Masse
"Butterfly Kiss" by The Id
"The Butterfly and I" by Shocking Blue
"Love Is Like A Butterfly" by Clare Torry
"Lazy Butterfly" by Devendra Banhart
"Mary Rachel's Butterfly" by McFadden's Parachute
"Pink Painted Butterfly" by Milkwood Tapestry
"Butterfly Dream" by The Freak Scene (Canada, 1967)
"Brush With The Midnight Butterfly" by The Human Beast
"(You And I) Butterfly" by The Five Man Electrical Band
"Rainbows and Butterflies" by The Petards (Germany, 1968)
"Sleepy Eyes and Butterflies" by Man (covered by The Spacious Mind in 1996)
"Butterflies Are Free" by The Free Design
"Swans and Butterflies" by The Green Pajamas
"Ink Blot Butterflies" by Turn Me On Dead Man
"Silently We Were Besieged By Butterflies" by The Retinal Circus
"Butterflies of Bliss" by The Love Dimension
"Butterflies on PCP" by Dead Beast
"Psychodelic Butterfly Blues" by The Drive-Thru Mystics
"The Attention Span Of A Butterfly" by Kid Loco
"Queen of the Butterflies" by The Orange Disaster
"Satellites Like Butterflies" by The June
"Butterfly, How Long It Takes To Die" by The Flaming Lips
"The Magical Butterfly Net" by Black Moth Super Rainbow
"Drowning Butterflies" by Cleaners From Venus (covered by Matt Baldwin)
"Perched Upon The Temple Bell, The Butterfly Sleeps" by Stone Breath"
"The Never Expected Journey Of The Late September Butterfly Who Can Not Fall Asleep" by Mandra Gora Lightshow Society
"Who Breaks The Butterfly Upon The Wheel" by Psycodaisies
"Some Butterflies Are Bound To Be Crushed Upon The Wheel" by Joseph Airport
"Amongst Butterflies" by Paul Weller (he's a hippie too, y'know)

And Butterboy came up with this list
Coloured Clocks - Butterflies :03:32
Edgar Broughton Band - Psychopath: A. The Psychopath B. Is For Butterflies :06:45
Free Design - Butterflies Are Free :03:34
Jonathan Brinkley - Butterflies :04:22
Muse - Butterflies & Hurricanes :05:02
Pearls Before Swine Butterflies :02:41
Petards - Rainbows And Butterflies 1967 :02:58
The Three Of August - A Thousand Butterflies :01:47
Georgees - Butterflies Never Cry :02:49
Virus - Butterflies :04:28

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

WOW! You guys are the best. Special thanks to Flaxton, Scott and Phil and his friends. Any more, anyone?

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Pooka -Sweet Butterfly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlpULmsyvA

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

PS: how you make see the video preview here?

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

I made a psych butterfly playlist, check it out:

https://stuckinthesixtiessongbook.blogspot.com/2022/04/butterfly-ballads.html?m=1

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Ariel Greenwood
I made a psych butterfly playlist, check it out:

https://stuckinthesixtiessongbook.blogspot.com/2022/04/butterfly-ballads.html?m=1
In my HD there is a rare artifact titled "Butterflydelia" with 45 tracks. I don't remember where I got it.
Here is the song list:

abedul - the monster & the butterfly
Beachwood sparks - Sleeping Butterfly
Bee Gees - Butterfly
Benitez - Butterfly
Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
Bread, Love & Dreams - Butterflyland
CATCH - The Dandelion And The Butterfly
Cher - Elusive Butterfly
Cheryl Dilcher - Butterfly
Coconut Mushroom - Like a Butterfly
Complex - Norwegian Butterfly
Corbett Mike & Hirsh Jay with Hugh McCracken - Butterfly Day
dave n lee - i can see the colours of the butterfly
David Garrick - Flutterby Butterfly
Devendra Banhart - Lazy Butterfly
Dolly Parton - Love Is Like A Butterfly
Equals - Butterfly Red White And Blue
Fat Mattress - Iridescent Butterfly
Folk 5 - Butterfly
henry smith - addresses a butterfly
Human Beast - Brush With The Midnight Butterfly
Jan Schim - Butterfly
Los Brincos - Butterfly
Marcus (Rusty Evans) - Butterfly Girl
Marmalade - Butterfly
My Kind Of People - Nobody Knows Why The Butterfly Died
Nicky James - Silver Butterfly
Paul Masse - Butterfly Lake
Petards - rainbows & butterflys
Pink Floyd - Butterfly
QUILL - Yellow Butterfly
Shocking Blue - The Butterfly and I
Simon Bloom - Hollow Butterfly
Sundays & Cybele - Butterfly's Dream
The Balcony Stars - The Butterfly Girl
the fox - butterfly
The Hammers - Little Butterfly
The Nightcrawlers - My Butterfly
The Springtime - Better Fly Butterfly
The Strongs - Flying Like A Butterfly
The Untamed - Butterfly
Unit 4+2 - Butterfly
Verve - Butterfly
Wade And The Nationals - Butterfly
Wildflower - Butterfly

If you are interested I can send it to you.

Spanish songs (Buterffly = Mariposa):

Los Negativos - ¿Quién Aplastó La Mariposa? (Very Good)
Danny Daniel – El Vals De Las Mariposas
Aquarius - Mariposa
Los de la Torre - La Mariposa Intranquila
Los Brincos - Butterfly

Miguel Abuelo - Mariposas De Madera (Argentina)
Los Xochimilcas - Pobre Mariposa (Mexico, Instrumental)

If you make an updated list it will be very easy to add new songs.

Greetings from Spain
Jose

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

sadly the author of this thread has passed on RIP Steve

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

I hope you fly surrounded by butterflies

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

An interesting person was Steve. RIP.

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

dear Steve, someone who knew what he liked and indeed what he didn't! I'd like to think that we learned to understand and live with his mood swings. RIP fella

Re: Anyone know any psychedelic songs with butterflies in the lyrics?

Sorry to hear of the passing of Steve - I don't post much but I do visit every couple of days...
and I do remember reading his posts.
On the topic of butterflies in lyrics, for 'Julia' by Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade - have a listen:
https://youtu.be/YmJla_dQglo