The Butterfly Effect The motion of one wing One little action changes So many different future things What if I just slept in Took a sick day with a cough I wouldn't have been driving When the airbags went off The surgeon said something and then I felt the pain again My heart beat stops Blood pressure drops The lights begin to dim I'm outside my biology Watching my biography play My life flashed in front of my eyes My life flashed in front of my eyes My life flashed in front of my Who I am and who I've been and Time limit: Seven minutes Every beginning leads to an ending There's no defending myself Pretending I'm better than anyone else ‘Cause ego's a shell game, it's a hell framed By insecurities, lack of maturity Versions and versions the best and the worst of mistaken identity I pretend to be somebody other than me The enemy of what I wanted to be Epiphany: Love will conquer all And for the first time in my whole life, I think I finally see Strange little hospital room For me to end so soon My empire schemes Aggrandized dreams Soon to be entombed I read when I was a kid That after your heartbeat stops You still have 7 minutes Before your brainwaves shut off The irony merits a grin If I wasn't outside of my skin That this is the last of the memories past Of the 7 minutes I'm in My life flashed in front of my eyes (Staring at the short film of my life) My life flashed in front of my eyes (Never thought today would be my time) My life flashed in front of my eyes (Death never gave no reason why) My life flashed in front of my Wake up, Mr. Crow! My life flashed in front of my