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I
know we shot your daddy down when he flew to another tree
and when we stole the eggs from your mother's nest we all said it wasn't me We're clever and blind, we're blind and we're clever with a pride in it from our birth Short-sighted dreams bring us to our knees at the edge of a murdered earth |
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We've
moulded the steel, made ammunition we've built these concrete domes
We have taken each other's blood and bombed each other's homes So I ask you songbird if you don't mind singing in the morning You look so scared, you can't fight back you're such a small and delicate thing |
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Oh,
songbird sing it again 'cause we're all too human with so much doubt
Songbird sing it again 'cause we're caught on the wire and we've gotta get out |
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Here
in the city how we clatter and we crave so we never really hear your song
We advertise buy and we tell each other lies to convince somebody is wrong We lost the path, we lost the way trying to get ahead Teaching our children to carry these guns and leaving all the others unfed |
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Oh,
songbird sing it again 'cause we're all too human with so much doubt
Songbird sing it again 'cause we're caught on the wire and we've gotta get out |
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Sang
your song in the fields of France and all the way to the Vietcong
While we've butchered our innocence day after day and we've acted like nothing was wrong We race through time on a clogged up wheel arrogantly staying alive Avoiding the obvious, in glory and death well, I hope we can apologise in the end |
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Oh,
songbird sing it again 'cause we're all too human with so much doubt
Songbird sing it again 'cause we're caught on the wire and we've gotta get out Songbird sing it again 'cause we're all too human with so much doubt Songbird sing it again 'cause we're caught on the wire and we've gotta get out |
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I
know we shot your daddy down when he flew to another tree
When we stole the eggs from your mother's nest we all said it wasn't me |
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