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Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with the singles "Walk on the Ocean", "All I Want", "Something's Always Wrong", and "Fall Down", among others. The band broke up in 1998 to pursue other projects but in 2006 began touring the United States as a band in small-venue, short-run tours each summer. In December 2010, the band announced their official reunion as a full-time working band and have started writing songs for their first new studio album since their 1997 Columbia Records release Coil. more »


Year:
1991
4:26
105 
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(I saw something
gigantic
out on the water
I asked my dad for a nickel
He gave it to me
It was kind of misty
I couldn't be sure what it was
And of course, he wouldn't tell me)
in time i will collect the world
the eggs and wings of butterflies       i love the wings
                                        of butterflies
 
a man drove up in an ugly car
and he flashed his lights at everything he saw
and his eyes were red
and his stereo was so loud you couldn't hear the engine's roar
and he yelled at everybody in the road
and did not notice all the moths he'd massacred
spread across the open road
 
(weird when you get close 
to something that BIG
you can't see anything at all...)
 
in time i will
collect the world
the eggs and wings of   you who fall on
butterflies             calvary
                        had you wings of        i give my children
                                                butterflies
 
a moth had settled upon his arm and he looked at it with a lazy eye
and he lifted up a gigantic hand
and he spread his fingers towards the sky
and he nudged the moth to make it fly away
but moths are fragile things
and he just wiped its ody down across his shoulder blade
 
he's a wonder, he's a little black-wing boy
oh my daughters
he'll fill you with joy
 
in time i will
collect the world
the hearts and limbs of
butterflies             you who soar o'er
                        calvary
                        had you wings of 
                        butterflies             oh father, i offer
                                                butterflies

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Written by: TIM N BAXTER, KLAUS ULRICH N DERENDORF, KATE N ELSWORTH, THOMAS MARK HARMER NICHOLS

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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