<P> "The Crow & the Butterfly" is the fifth single by American rock band Shinedown from their 2008 album The Sound of Madness . The song was written by Shinedown lead singer Brent Smith . The song was introduced in 2007, in an acoustic session on The Buckethead Show . </P> <P> "The Crow & the Butterfly - EP" was released on iTunes on July 27, 2010, which included the original song, "The Crow & the Butterfly (Pull Mix)", the music video for the song, and a digital booklet . </P> <P> Brent Smith explained on a radio interview program, Rockline, that while the band was writing the new album, he had a dream about a mother whose daughter died a month before her son Trevor was born . He wrote the song about the mother dealing with the death of her child and trying to move on . </P> <P> On a blog on the Shinedown website, Brent Smith said this about the song: "For me lyrically this was one of the most intense stories I have ever written . But I know the song means something different to everyone ." </P>

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