Birdcage (Album Version)

So sad

That you took it so badly

And acted so madly

So scared

Like a baby by the morning

With sunlight unfolding

Your eyes have turned red

And are holding me

Inside your story

In the end

You'll be starting on a new one

Of anguish and delusions

He smiles

Just like a magician

Who's just cast his illusions

Of castles and sandstones

On the backbeach

And bright lights

Within your reach

The sounds

Of a warning

By the morning

Of hound dogs coming for me

With the ropes

Leading back to your knees

And you lookin' straight at me

On your knees in the rain

With a basket of flowers

Just for me

As the bells in the trees up above

All swung and rang softly

You said you rang them for me

For me

Come back baby bird

With your dirty wings in tatters

Come home where you belong

Nobody knows you better

Now bring back your velvet heart

And we'll make you brand new feathers

Sleep through the morning light

With your arms around your brother

Baby bird

Come back home

Baby bird

You were never really on your own

Now outside faces cry

With the tears of lonesome orphans

And behind every mask

Is the face of another

Wherever you have been

Wherever you took cover

No arms that pulled you in

Could hold you like your mother

Baby bird

Come back home

Baby bird

You were never really on your own

When all my colors fade

And my wings they've turned to leather

I'll know the reasons why

God let me get older

When all my days are through

And I fly these hills no longer

I'll lay beneath the stars

And I'll watch you flying over

Baby bird

Come back home

Baby bird

You were never really on your own

Baby bird

Come back home

Baby bird

You will never be all alone