"Happiness Is a Butterfly" is an unreleased song by Lana Del Rey. It was recorded in early 2018 and is currently unknown when it will be released.
Background
Del Rey first teased the lyrics of the song on March 5, 2018. She posted a snippet of the song on March 29, 2018 to her Instagram profile.[1] After a while, she deleted the snippet from her Instagram profile. On September 11, 2018, the snippet was unarchived and is again available on her profile.
On October 6, 2018, she posted another snippet on her Instagram profile.
Cross-references
- Getting high is a central theme of many songs by Del Rey, such as "Born to Die", "High By The Beach" and "Us Against The World".
- Direct reference to “Serial Killer”.
- Being crazy is mentioned in many of Del Rey’s songs such as “Cruel World” and “Ride”.
- Being hurt is also referred to in many of Del Rey’s songs such as “Ultraviolence” and “Body Electric”.
Lyrics
Snippet #1
Happiness is a butterfly
Try to catch it like every night
It escapes from my hands
Into moonlight
Every day is a lullaby
I hum it on the phone like every night
And sing it for my babies on the tourlyfe
Snippet #2
Happiness is a butterfly
We should catch it when dancing high
Lose myself in the music
Baby
Every day is a lullaby
Try to catch it like lightening-night
Sing it into my music
I'm crazy
If he's a serial killer
Then what's the worst
That could happen to a girl
Whose already hurt
I'm already hurt
If he's as bad as they say
Then I guess I could
[?] into his eyes
I think he's already hurt