Hummingbird

When I met her she was just engaged I was only twenty-three She left right when I said hello I pursued her in my dreams And when I found the courage To speak more than a word She was dressed in green and wild as night All like a Hummingbird She stole my heart some more each day She said You should be mine We married in her father's house Beneath the autumn sky Blissfully I watched her darting Round and out of sight I knew I couldn't hold on long My hands are much too tight She slips, there she slides And here she comes and there she flies Yeah... She said she'd travel by my side Unless death doth do us part We were in some crowded city street Then stopped her beating heart Gone before we made one year All good things she passed Disappeared into the breeze And flew out for the last Yeah... Oh In these times of constant change I've been holding on for you You're the one whose affections I still crave The one my world clings to These words of mine escape my mouth And travel without bounds Up through the clouds out into space There run devotion's sounds I hear them! Oooh... Yeah We'll I know she slips, she slides And here she comes, there she flies Oh if I could be with her again I don't know what I would say But I'll always know her by her shape Between the night and day She comes to me in glimpses now Just as fleeting as a word Flashes bright, disappears My darling, my darling bird Hummingbird oooh