song ID: '...you're my butterfly...'

June 23, 2009 5:12 AM

Asking on behalf of a friend... 'One day back in 2004 or 2005 I heard a song played on the radio. All I remember is that the song was fairly long, and that at some point it descended into a kind of blissed-out psychedelia, and I remember a stoned-sounding voice saying 'You're my butterfly' with a sense of wonder.' Any ideas?
posted by paleyellowwithorange to media & arts (18 comments total)

Devendra Banhart sounds good... search the you tube
posted by From Bklyn at 5:20 AM on June 23

Possibly Butterfly by Crazy Town.
posted by bjrn at 5:34 AM on June 23

"You're my butterfly, sugar, baby"?

I somehow doubt it. Plus the song's only 3 minutes thirty or so.
posted by dunkadunc at 5:46 AM on June 23

Seconding Devendra Banhart's Lazy Butterfly.
posted by oinopaponton at 6:06 AM on June 23

We just listened to both those songs, and it's not either of them. I quite like the Banhart song though. But that's neither here nor there.

More clues: The song 'felt like ten minutes long' and the stoned voice sounded like the way Bootsy Collins sounded in that old Deee-Lite video, 'Groove is in the Heart'.
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 6:23 AM on June 23

"Butterfly" by Yoko Kanno from Cowboy Bebop?
posted by ShawnStruck at 6:40 AM on June 23

No, that's not it either. Relaxing though, isn't it?
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 6:58 AM on June 23

Delta Goodrem's song? Doesn't seem to fit the description, though.
posted by bz at 8:01 AM on June 23

Butterfly by Lenny Kravitz
posted by unknowncommand at 9:30 AM on June 23

The Kravitz piece seems to fulfill the "stoned" aspect.
posted by bz at 9:46 AM on June 23

The Verve - Butterfly?
posted by juv3nal at 9:47 AM on June 23

Butterfly - Donavon Frankenreiter
posted by BearPaws at 10:24 AM on June 23

It may be The Verve, but perhaps Catching the Butterfly instead. It certainly seems to have the "blissed-out psychedelia" part down. Plus it's a little over seven minutes long.

The problem is that it doesn't have the "You Are My Butterfly" utterance. At least. I didn't detect it.
posted by bz at 10:27 AM on June 23

The problem is that it doesn't have the "You Are My Butterfly" utterance. At least. I didn't detect it.

Neither Butterfly or Catching the Butterfly do, but I thought Butterfly felt more like "blissed-out psychedelia" and from identification AskMes in the past, it's not uncommon for people to mishear or misremember things.
posted by juv3nal at 11:01 AM on June 23

'Not Goodrem. Not Kravitz. Not The Verve. Not Frankenreiter.'

Thanks all for trying. I agree with juv3nal - it's possible that the song's not being entirely accurately recalled. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get a better description of the rest of the song - the only aspects that impressed my friend I described in my initial post. But I figured it was worth asking on the offchance that the song is roughly as described, and an obscure favorite of someone here, and that the one (apparently) clearly remembered lyric would help identification.
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 4:06 PM on June 23

Long shot, but it could be Lucidity by Kinobe. Psychedelic music, stoned voice, about the right period too.
posted by hnnrs at 4:24 PM on June 23

I once had some music on a tape just labelled something like Ǵoa Trance' and part of it had a stoned voice kind of monotonously (but optimistically?) saying:
Ï feel like a bulldozer, trying... to catch a butterfly¨

Not saying thatś it, but it does sound like it could be some kind of psychedelic trance track. Which does drastically reduce your chances of finding it on standard lyrics sites. Maybe thereś some trance sites out there with forums you could ask?
posted by Elysum at 4:29 PM on June 23

Could it be something by Boards of Canada? They could be described as (sort of quietly) blissed out and psychedelic, adn they often have odd vocal samples. I'm not at home, so I can't run through their songs, though...
posted by ubersturm at 7:09 PM on June 23