Little Bird

Do you hear me small animal

So have my hand in the greatness of happiness

Do you have the heart for it

To squeal and revel in all you have done

Oh little animal

Oh little baby bird

I had so much to give to you

I had so much love swelling my heart

I had not forgotten any songs you've wrote

And yet I've forgot my own

Oh little bird

Sit on your thrown

Sit atop the brambles and thorns and dead leaves

Tell me how you stopped time from fleeting

Kept your heart beating

Without a care of the world

Tell me how you shoved the reality of it all into two pieces

Tell me little animal

You baby, baby, little bird

How you opened your eyes and found it all

To keep or not to keep

To hold and let go

Oh sleep

Young sleep

Old sleep

You had it all

And I will weep

Because little, baby, bird

You died then

You died right here

Tell me did it hurt to let it fly away from you

Did it hurt to realize your life was beautiful to me

To find you had meaning after all

You ceased the rain

Because it falls

Because it hangs

Because it stops sometimes

Oh little animal

I will love you

I will love you in the hope that

All I have has meaning too

Oh little bird

I will always love you