Mariah Carey - Butterfly - Live at Oprah Winfrey Show 1997

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Butterfly is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released on September 16, 1997, by Columbia Records. The album contained both hip-hop and R&B sounds, as well as some softer and more contemporary melodies. Throughout the project, Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she had written and produced most of the material from her previous albums. She also worked with many famed hip-hop producers and rappers, such as Sean "Puffy" Combs, Kamaal Fareed, Missy Elliott and Jean Claude Oliver and Samuel Barnes from Trackmasters. With the latter acts producing most of the album, Butterfly deviated from the contemporary sound of Carey's older work, and was hailed as a defining album of the 1990s and of pop and R&B music.

Lyrics:
When you love someone so deeply
They become your life
It's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside
Blindly I imaged I could
Keep you under glass
Now I understand to hold you
I must open 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 ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly

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 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 ment 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 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
If you should return to me
We truly were ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly

Chorus 4:

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 ment to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
So flutter through the sky
Butterfly
Spread your wings and fly
Butterfly

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• Mariah Carey
• Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)
• Butterfly (Mariah Carey song)
• 1997
• Oprah Winfrey Show

[justinbutlerworld]

This was 1995, not 1997, I sang background with her on Hero

[EintopfFlunder]

@justinbutlerworld What do you mean?? The Butterfly release was in 1997. How could you sing this song with her in 1995? Only the Hero vocals were lipped from the MSG performance.

[ndop]

a several parts is live, another is lip. But still love her... <3 <3

[s331052]

@EintopfFlunder Do you sing backup or solo now? How was it like to sing with Mariah Carey the one and only?

[arabiandouble]

lipsynched, but she acted her ass off in this performance. and that's what it was, a performance. love this song!

[iiAmitx3]

@iiAmitx3 sang*

[iiAmitx3]

i would like i better if she liked my all live instead of lipping butterfly like that.