Hummingbird

You wade through waste high waters For all you know it could be sand It runs over your fingertips And through your hands But not your lips So, you scream, you've had enough That you can look, but you cannot touch It's not as though you haven't tried You drank your cup of dust, And your lips went dry You wander to the waters then To find a desert light, lying there instead All that you've loved, lost in the sand All that you've loved, piling your hands Caught in the mirage of your tenderness, Of your tenderness For wanting the kiss Try to hold the wings of a hummingbird Or the song of the wind through the words That nobody heard The tighter your fingers, The weaker your hold Try to hold the wings of a hummingbird, The weaker your hold Run, better run They all run Run, better run They all run Said "I'm the one who's broken" You're the one who's broken For the jury's spoken For the door's wide open They all run Try to hold the wings of a hummingbird Or the song of the wind through the words That nobody heard The tigther your fingers, The weaker your hold Try to hold the wings of a hummingbird Or the song of the wind through the words The tigther your fingers, The weaker your hold