this song is based around the play/movie Madame Butterfly, which i believe some mentioned earlier. riveres wept uncontrollably when he watched it for the first time. its about a sailor that made false promises to a young girl young girl for sex. rivers sees this relating to himself. i suppose that he was over in japan once and slept with a young girl who loved him and mad promises to return and so on. he promised her that it wasn't a one night stand even though he knew that it was and he realized how much he hurt her. the butterfly in this song is that naive girl. "maybe you're as real as me" says that he is realizing that she has feelings too. he says that he would return but he isn't going to and he's sorry repeats at the end of the song.
this song is based around the play/movie Madame Butterfly, which i believe some mentioned earlier. riveres wept uncontrollably when he watched it for the first time. its about a sailor that made false promises to a young girl young girl for sex. rivers sees this relating to himself. i suppose that he was over in japan once and slept with a young girl who loved him and mad promises to return and so on. he promised her that it wasn't a one night stand even though he knew that it was and he realized how much he hurt her. the butterfly in this song is that naive girl. "maybe you're as real as me" says that he is realizing that she has feelings too. he says that he would return but he isn't going to and he's sorry repeats at the end of the song.
has to be rivers's best written song...