Imogen Heap - If Only I Were A Butterfly (RARE) video free download


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Duration: 05:07
Uploaded: 2009/09/05

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Imogen wrote and recorded this song when she was 16 as part of an end of year school project.

Here are the lyrics:

Sometimes i don't feel quite myself here

Sometimes i don't feel like it's my home

Would like to be a place where i'm free to play, a place i call my own

Sometimes i feel like i'm trapped in a spider's web

And each thread is in itself a problem

So i try to break free, untangled

But i'm back to where i started from

If only i where a butterfly

I'd fly so high

Right passed the sky

And let go my fears

Let go my my despairs

I will give them to the air, without a care

I walk alone in the dark

I wonder through the night

I lie to look up high

To see the starry skies

It gives me strength to know

There's peace somewhere up there

So quite so undisturbed

I'm mystified

In my bed i lie awake

And i'm dreaming of that land

So far away from me

It makes me want to cry

...

Pray for the day for i die

If only i where a butterfly

Id fly so high

Right passed the sky

And let go my fears

Let go my my despairs

I will give them to the air, without a care

Comments

9 years ago

Kristin Crumpler

Rare... from IG

9 years ago

Kiley Brinkman

Funny how she wrote this in her teens (I'm the same age as her), and I seem to relate to it just as much as an adult still...<3

9 years ago

David Clark

Are the background voices her also or did she include others in this?

9 years ago

Gracie Pelsue

Woa-oh-oh. I've heard that her original music was in a very different direction than her later work, and..huh..wow! But this is EXACTLY what I expected her full voice to sound like, I just hadn't actually heard it before. What an interesting path she went along, gotta say I enjoy where she ended up eventually! Thank you so much for posting this! So cool to hear the early stuff

10 years ago

Lily Shimizu

I think this video is pitched down a bit. Her voice is lower here than in any of her other songs, and if this is really from age 16 then her voice would much more likely be a bit higher in her younger age if not the same, but not lower.

10 years ago

hair For Medium Hair

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10 years ago

jackassrox100

I guess it just means she has an awesome voice range.

10 years ago

ayesh eranga

I'm annoyed. My nephew sleeps on the floor above me and he in recent months got fantastic at seducing gals. The guy discovered the Master Attraction web page by Jake Ayres (Look in Google). Now I hear him bringing girls back. He's consistently bringing girls back. I can't help but hear it. It's yucky. I wish he never found that site. My best friend just signed up and got a blowjob a week later. I'm jealous!

10 years ago

Ty Monae ♡

Ahhh, that makes sense! She does sing in a wide variety of ranges at times..

10 years ago

Rio Tomlinson-Curley

To be honest, she can sing at so many ranges. If you listen to her voice carefully, you'll notice she changes it in all of her albums. She mainly gets softer, but she will go really low and really high at times in her newer songs. Her voice is amazing.

10 years ago

Beckie0

When I write "I hear Enya and Enigma" - I mean that it has a similar feel. Not that I can specifically hear those artists in her music.

10 years ago

Beckie0

This is amazing for a 16 year old. I wonder if this was for her GCSE's. I hear Enya and Enigma in this. We've had loads of thunder this week, and listening to this track at first - I didn't pick up the thunder in the background of the song itself. I love how the song changes at 1:18 and again at 3:40. Thankyou Imi. :).

10 years ago

NiNi Collins

That does not sound like her at all!

10 years ago

TheEpicBudgie

...this doesn't sound like her at all...

10 years ago

Agape420

This was how she sang, what her voice sounded like until she met Guy and they created Frou Frou!

11 years ago

Judy A. Colbert

i have one song by her on my iPod-Hide and Seek. Until i searched for her on YouTube, i never would have realized what a talent she is, and what i was missing. why is fantastic music so often neglected? thanks YouTube, for your wonderful search format!

11 years ago

EmMaMusic

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11 years ago

itarfer

What grade do you think she got?

11 years ago

DanPat121

How did you get your hands on this track?!

11 years ago

Ty Monae ♡

Thank you, the one person who doesn't misunderstand my comment. That actually makes a lot of sense since i'm seeing her music back then was a bit darker. That makes her even more talented to sing in different pitches and ranges.

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