Meadowlark

Meadowlark - Meredith Braun

When I was a girl

I had a favorite story

Of the meadowlark

Who lived where the rivers wind

Her voice could match

The angels in it's glory

But she was blind

The lark was blind

An old king came

And took her to his palace

Where the walls were burnished bronze

And golden braid

And he fed her fruit

And nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed

Sing for me my meadowlark

Sing for me of the silver morning

Set me free my meadowlark

And I'll buy you a priceless jewel

And cloth of brocade and cruel

And I'll love you for life if you will

Sing for me

Then one day as the lark sang by the water

The god of the sun heard her in his flight

And her singing moved him so

He came and brought her

The gift of sight

He gave her sight

And she opened her eyes to

The shimmer and the splendor

Of this beautiful young god

So proud and strong

And he called to the lark

In a voice both rough and tender

Come along fly with me my meadowlark

Fly with me on the silver morning

Past the sea where the dolphins bark

We will dance on the coral beaches

Make a feast of the plums and peaches

Just as far as your vision reaches

Fly with me

But the meadowlark said no

For the old king loved her so

She couldn't bear to wound his pride

So the sun god flew away and

When the king came down that day

He found his meadowlark had died

Every time I heard that part I cried

And now I stand here

Starry eyed and stormy

Oh just when I thought

My heart was finally numb

A beautiful young man appears before me

Singing Come oh won't you come

And what can I do

If finally for the first time

The one I'm burning for returns the glow

If love has come at last

It's picked the worst time

Still I know I've got to go

Fly away meadowlark

Fly away in the silver morning

If I stay I'll grow to curse the dark

So it's off where the days won't bind me

I know I leave wounds behind me

But I won't let tomorrow find me back this way

Before my past once again

Can blind me fly away

And we won't wait to say goodbye

My beautiful young man and I