Sparrow

I took a lover

In the summer, in the summer

Ooh, sweet sparrow song

Come winter, come winter

I lost my lover

Just like the birds

She'd up and gone

But when she left

She left with a promise

Ooh, she would not be long

And I'd know she was coming

I'd only to listen

Ooh, for sparrow song

They say that what goes up

Usually comes back down

Sometimes the silence just rings out

Rings out, rings out, rings out

Elsewhere in the county

A council was voting

Ooh, sweet sparrow song

The trees had an illness

They wanted a quickfix

A chemical treatment

To right their wrongs

Well it sure killed the virus

But nobody noticed

Ooh, till spring had sprung

That the birds were all dying

The earth had been poisoned

And I was still listening

For sparrow song

They say that what goes up

Usually comes back down

Sometimes the silence just rings out

Rings out, rings out, rings out, rings out