I give you this song
For I want to forget my memory of you
But I don't want the memory to be forgotten
Therefore I'll sing these words
As if they were someone else's
I'll speak of him
Instead of you
And pretend the lines of this song
Have always been there
Bird what do you sing
When the other is gone
For those wings were the ones that you flew with
And to enshroud these words
Won't make them disappear
Every word will be his from now on
I've been waiting for a long time here
It's been so cold without him near
I've been waiting for a long time to see him here
It's been so cold without him near
I can change my words, I can cover them up
In every birdsong, I will hear his song
Every sound will encompass these words I know
I know
There's no bird that can compare to him at all
To him at all
