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| "Wings of a Butterfly" | ||||
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| Single by HIM | ||||
| from the album Dark Light | ||||
| B-side | "Poison Heart" | |||
| Released | 2 August 2005 | |||
| Genre | Gothic rock | |||
| Length | 3:29 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Ville Valo | |||
| Producer(s) | HIM | |||
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"Wings of a Butterfly" (released as "Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly" on the album) is a song by Finnish gothic rock band HIM. It is the second track on their fifth studio album, Dark Light (2005), and was released as the album's first single that year. The song reached number one in Finland and Hungary, number 10 in Germany and the United Kingdom, and number 87 in the United States, making it the biggest single from Dark Light worldwide. The music video, filmed at Union Station in Los Angeles, was number one on the Rock Countdown on MTV2 in late 2005 for five weeks until it was retired.