Every Time I See A Bird

Every time I see a bird

Flying over my head

I get to thinking could be you

Coming down to check

Every time I see a bird

Tumble out of the sky

Realize you're still alive, still alive

Spent the summer on the train

Passing cities in the night

Always planning my escape

That golden church of lies

Didn't need home like that till it died

I was just a kid with wool in my eyes

Lot of life denied

How do you know I been dreaming

Of dangerous things?

It's 5 in the morning

I'm fixing again

You appear at the window

And open your wings

Surprise, surprise

A little bird arrives, you're still alive

The other day I saw a bird

Struggle in the wind

Beaten black and blue

Then rising up again

I want that fight to set me free

We get close, but we don't speak

I know you're still alive

How do you know I been dreaming

Of dangerous things?

It's 5 in the morning

I'm fixing again

You appear at the window

And open your wings

Surprise, surprise

A little bird arrives, you're still alive

(Just at the minute when I'm starting to break)

Still Alive (Hand on the trigger and I'm starting to shake)

Still Alive (You fall from the sky with perennial grace)

(Bird outside my window)

You're still alive (This hotel room is turning into a cage)

You're still alive (Seventeen hours feels like seventeen days)

You're still alive (You fall from the sky with perennial grace)

(Bird outside my window)