Lay back and I'll kiss your throat
While you talk on the phone
And hang up on your husband
If you want to be alone
It might be right, it might be wrong
It might be the unknown
But, we won't think about it
'Til he's standing in the door
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly for you
With thoughts as dark as the pavement
Pitch black in the locust sun
He'd never even met a woman
Who'd had the procedure done
But, Friday night when the clinic's bright
This Clergy-fathers son
Will stand upright
For the 'Right to Life'
With a bible and a gun
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly undone
The air is thick with righteous men
But, your control is paper thin
I'd like to be a fly up on the wall
When you break down your cocoon
And watch the shattered pieces fall
I'll give you a secret
That I know you'll never keep
You give me the killing floor
And I'll promise not to leap
'Cause deep inside our skulls
There is a nest of small cocoons
You'll wake one night in a cockroach sweat
Underneath an insect moon
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly stuck through
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly
Shakin' like a butterfly it's true so true