No Hay Mariposas (feat. Teyou)

How do you do this?
Write a love song that doesn't sound cheesy
And that is honest?
After a lifetime of listening to ballads that I don't believe
How do I sit here and tell you what I feel?

I must be the most fraudulent poet of all time
I can't read the moles on your body in braille
When we're apart, I don't run out of breath
I breathe normally, but I miss you
Because I like being with you, talking and spending time

Teasing each other and pulling each other's leg
Not everything is fun but you laugh so beautifully
That even if I don't understand the joke, I smile too
I know I love you, because I see your flaws
Falling in love with an ideal I suppose is more intense, of course

From there come those elevated verses
My love is calmer, I love you in the everyday
Your toothbrush in my bathroom, the silent hugs
Refusing to let the other have the last bite
Looking at you, you looking at me, and knowing what's going on
That's where it's proven that we fit
You put up with me and I put up with you
How do you say you love someone but then don't accept their faults?

No one is perfect here, but we improve each other
I try to make you better, you've already made me better
Maybe you were expecting a somewhat more romantic text
But I didn't want to fall into the most classic clichés
I wanted to tell you how I feel without embellishing it
I don't know how to talk about butterflies, but I love you

I dive headfirst with you, with reason I follow you
I take care of you, I ask of you
I take care of myself, nananana
Although we both bring baggage
Nothing weighs us down, a common language
Not crazy about you, not crazy with you
You breathe, I breathe

Love isn't free, I know it has to be earned
I don't expect you to give it to me, I work for it
I'm sorry if sometimes you notice I relax
I love you but sometimes the day-to-day is complicated
You're in my head and take up a lot of space
But even if poems don't say it, there are more things
I love you, you matter to me and I want to be by your side
But it's not always because of you if you see something's wrong
Trust me, I can't lie with my actions
My favorite dish is eating your brain in bites
And lower, and lower
My favorite dish is meat, even though it's vegan
We're not always okay because it would be impossible to be
Mature love is sometimes sweet and sometimes bitter
That's where you really see if there's commitment in the lows

With you, I'll go to hell if necessary
A team, two people with their spaces
A team, two people, that shouldn't be forgotten
You can't always be what I want all the time
And I can't always be what you want all the time
Loving each other also means not understanding each other sometimes
Compromising and arguing and getting mad
We're real, that's why it's sometimes so hard
I don't know how to talk about butterflies, but I love you

I dive headfirst with you, with reason I follow you
I take care of you, I ask of you
I take care of myself, nananana
Although we both bring baggage
Nothing weighs us down, a common language
There are no butterflies
You breathe, I breathe

There are no butterflies, there are no butterflies