To Kill a Songbird

 

Far, far away she went

with star-dust in her eyes

Gone to seek the sage’s sights

to make all her burdens die

And my fears all ran so quietly

like a stranger in the night

as this lady once was drawn to me

to find all was good and right.

Bye my love, goodbye my love

Will I see your face again?

My hollow heart is cracked in two

I guess only time will mend

 

Asleep at night with broken dreams

Does she ever think of me?

If I had only told her more…

Perhaps the truth would set me free.

Goodbye my love, goodbye my love

I want to hold you in my arms,

but my sorrow knows the price was high

and could only caused you harm.

 

Old love songs the songbird sings

until the morning light

when Heaven’s gates open wide

to wash away the night

But now she’s found another,

and in her arms a child

Gone now is the one I’ve loved,

the one I once conciled.

Bye my love, goodbye my love

‘till the rivers run no more

my heart runs down a one-way street,

and love’s an exit door.

 

The songbird now is silent

The nights are long and cold

And as lonely as it ever was

With no one here to hold

And now my love, goodbye my love

You’ve made the world turn blue

For to kill a songbird

A man’s heart must die too

You went to kill a songbird

You took my dreams with you.

 

 

The path we take is long and rough

And often seems a burden

The roads we choose are often tough

And never are we certain

But travel them we know we must

Drive on my friends, drive on

In all our choices we must trust

For time will soon be gone

Move ahead and don’t look back

Never lose your way

Because you cannot find your tracks

And from the path you’ll stray

Have faith and travel forward

And surely you will find

That you are moving toward

Good times and piece of mind

The Devil’s Way

 

Gone away now

Gone to the devil’s way

And we’ll have no more sleep tonight

Run through the fire

Tripping’ on a memory

And no, it just ain’t right

Flying through the dark skies

Swimming in the crimson seas

The smell of death first, then I twitch

Burning the gates down

Kicking down Heaven’s door

Ain’t that a bitch?

Shoot down the sparrows

Rip all the guilt away

We’re crawling off to war

Bloodlines lost

Mother’s little babies gone

No one’s loving anymore

Push through the valley

Blue skies now all grey

Raining bullets overhead

Ahead is the darkness

Behind us, our broken dreams

And beside us are the dead

The orders come down

The hammers come down

We’ve thrown it all away

The bullets rain down

Our buddies fall down

Now the atheists all pray

Gone away now

Gone to the devil’s way

Now the battlefield is home

And should we survive

The memories will follow us

Wherever we may roam