Songbird

Music and Lyrics by Brian Thomas

Songbird, sing me a song
The prettiest melody that I've ever heard
I've got a pencil and paper
If you write the tunefulness I'll write the words
Make it a song about love
A song about beauty or long ago times
Songbird, sing me a song
You find the motifs and I'll find the rhymes

Songbird, now we are two
I'll find a harmony to go with your song
My voice isn't as lovely
But if you will let me I'll sing right along
Let's sing of myths and of legends
Of stories once told by the soft firelight
Songbird, I am not tired
Let's sing together from morning 'til night

All of my cares are gone
Now as I learn your song
The workaday world's far away
Watch as they come and go
Rush around to and fro
Songbird, with you I will stay

Songbird, don't fly a way
How will I know what to sing when you've gone
I wish that I was a songbird
Making up melodies, waking the dawn
I'd sing of clouds on the air
Of things that I'd seen as I floated up there
Songbird, where have you gone?
All I can sing of is stories and legends
Of hopes and of dreams
Of suffering, beauty, faith in the unseen
Of all that I'll be and all that I was
Of dancing, candlelight, heartbreak and love

Songbird, where is your melody?
I've lost your melody


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