Butterflies

* Final
* Demo

Fanmade cover

Fanmade cover

**Butterflies** is an unreleased song by Teddy Sinclair featuring Harmony Samuels, also known as H-Money. It was likely written and recorded during the studio sessions for her debut studio album as Verbalicious, *Verbal Issues*, but the project was scrapped. The song leaked on June 24, 2013.

## Lyrics

**[Refrain: Verbalicious, Harmony Samuels]**

You know I’m so in love with you *(Uh huh, uh)*

You know you’ll always be my boo *(Uh huh, uh huh)*

I know I feel the same way too

Butterflies in my eyes, oh

**[Intro: Harmony Samuels]**

A’ight, Verbalicious

Nice and Verb, here

Slides like the 21st

A’ight then

**[Chorus]**

You can tell when you’re in love

Because your heart will skip a beat

You can tell when you’re in love

Because you’ll always think of me

I can tell when I’m in love

‘Cause when I look into your eyes

You don’t know it, I don’t show it

But you give me butterflies *(Oh)*

**[Verse 1]**

Butterflies, when I look into your eyes

I smile and it gets better every time than the last time

And it’s all new to me and yeah, I like it

You’re mine and I’m yours and that’s right, so why fight it?

I think back and remember the first time

We walked through the sunshine, talked till the moonlight

Seeing your radiant smile light up your face

And the chase fades away as it falls into place

So perfect, I picture 5 years time, down the line

And you kiss me for the thousandth time

Still nervous, but that’s all part of the process, it’s worth it

‘Cause I’m thinkin’ only angels deserve this

**[Chorus]**

You can tell when you’re in love

Because your heart will skip a beat

You can tell when you’re in love

Because you’ll always think of me

I can tell when I’m in love

‘Cause when I look into your eyes

You don’t know it, I don’t show it

But you give me butterflies *(Yeah, yeah)*

**[Verse 2]**

It’s when you hold my hand, it’s when you kiss my cheek

It’s when I see you right before I meet you and I freak

It’s when I catch your eye when you’re about to speak

My knees are weak, I feel as if my heart has missed a beat

Swept me off my feet and now you treat me like I was a queen

Daddy told me this is how a gentleman should be with me

Hold me like I was a precious jewel from a foreign land

Like I was a pearl among the million grains of sand

And I’m spoiled by your hugging, your lovin’, and now it’s no surprise

That every time I see you, I’m still gettin’ butterflies

And all this kissin’, it’s just bliss and I can’t tell a lie

That I’m still gettin’ butterflies

**[Chorus]**

You can tell when you’re in love

Because your heart will skip a beat

You can tell when you’re in love

Because you’ll always think of me

I can tell when I’m in love

‘Cause when I look into your eyes

You don’t know it, I don’t show it *(Oh, oh, oh)*

But you give me butterflies *(Oh, yeah)*

**[Verse 3]**

Before I never believed that you and me could be

But God has proved me wrong, filled me with this ecstasy

And when you’re next to me, I know that you will rest with me

Day and night, stayin’ tight, never scared you’re testin’ me

And when you say you love me, you can turn my world around

I try to [?], found they just say the sweetest sound

Because you mean it, and boy I know you’ll always feel it

And now you know I feel the same, I never could conceive it

See my love is like a golden ring

Molded to you only when I’m lonely

I close my eyes, I can feel you hold me

So you gave me your heart, Imma treat it like my treasure

You must never let go of mine, it’s you and me forever

**[Refrain]**

You know I’m so in love with you

You know you’ll always be my boo

I know I feel the same way too

Butterflies in my eyes, oh

**[Chorus]**

You can tell when you’re in love

Because your heart will skip a beat

You can tell when you’re in love

Because you’ll always think of me

I can tell when I’m in love

‘Cause when I look into your eyes

You don’t know it, I don’t show it

But you give me butterflies

**[Refrain]**

You know I’m so in love with you

You know you’ll always be my boo

I know I feel the same way too

Butterflies in my eyes, oh

You know I’m so in love with you

You know you’ll always be my boo

I know I feel the same way too

Butterflies in my eyes, oh

Oh...

**[Outro: Harmony Samuels]**

Here it is...

Verbalicious A.K.A. Diamond Prince...

You know...

Chips off the block, they call for sure...

H-Money...

Nothin’ funny...

Good ish...

## Background

A snippet of Butterflies surfaced online on November 13, 2011, following the discovery of a 30-second preview on music licensing website, BMG. The song leaked in full on June 24, 2013, alongside other tracks from the *Verbal Issues* sessions.

Butterflies was leaked as the sixth track on *Verbal Issues*, but the track listing is most likely unofficial; for more information, see the album's page.

## Writing and Development

#### Initial Development

Butterflies was likely written during the development of the unreleased studio album, *Verbal Issues*, sometime after winning a BBC Radio 1 MC Battle in 2003 and before the album was scrapped in what seems to be late 2005.

Sinclair worked on the first known iteration of this song with David Awojboro and Nicholas Richards. This version was likely written and recorded during the same studio session(s) as Baseline, considering they share the same writers and were registered directly after one another on some music registration websites.

#### Reworks

Later on, Butterflies was reworked with Darren James. Considering this iteration of the song was assigned an ISWC, it is more than likely the final version. It was likely written and recorded during the same studio session(s) as Piece of Me, considering they share the same writers.

## Official Versions

 Demo

## Registrations

#### Final

This version of Butterflies was assigned an ISWC, a unique code necessary for commercial releases, which suggests that it was finished and ready for release at a point in time. However, the ISWC no longer seems to fetch any results on ISWC's website; it is unknown what the implication of this is.

ISWC: T-011.210.242-7 (Seemingly defunct)

APRA AMCOS (1)BMG (1)GEMA (1)GEMA (2)SABAM (1)SGAE (1)SIAE (1)Songfile (1)
#### Demo

This version of Butterflies was not assigned an ISWC, a unique code necessary for commercial releases, which suggests that the version was never finished or was never intended for an official release.

APRA AMCOS (2)ASCAPBMG (2)BMIGEMA (3)GEMA (4)SABAM (2)SABAM (3)SGAE (2)SIAE (2)Songfile (2)
## Song Credits

### Final

#### Writing and Production

* **Written by:** Teddy Sinclair, Darren James

### Demo

#### Writing and Production

* **Written by:** Teddy Sinclair, David Awojboro, Nicholas Richards

## References

1. ↑ Warning... they're from the Verbalicous era. November 13, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2022 via Night Owl on Gaga Daily.
2. ↑ "The unreleased debut album from Natalia Kills, Verbal Issues, has been leaked online!" June 24, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2022 via Leaving on Pop Hates Flops.
3. ↑ "she was signed soon after she won a Radio 1 MC competition when she was just 16." February 24, 2005. Retrieved February 25, 2022 via BBC.
4. ↑ "Verbalicious seems to have disapeared too. She had an album, Verbal Issues, in the pipeline but I guess it got shelved." September 14, 2005. Retrieved February 24, 2022 via [Deleted User] on Digital Spy Forums.
5. ↑ Butterflies: Writer(s) Darren James, Natalia Cappuccini Retrieved June 21, 2022 via BMG.