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God's Mockingbird
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God's Mockingbird was released on November 17, 2004 by Paris Records as a part of the album Ship of Dreams
ReleasedNovember 17, 2004
LabelParis Records
LanguageEnglish
BPM155
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

God's mockingbird
Don't sing no more
Where she had wings of gossamer
Now she has scars
Now she has claws
All feathers tattered and torn
But this metamorphosis complete
God's mockingbird hits the street
Hey haven't you seen
Hey haven't you heard
Haven't you seen
God's own mockingbird
Like vine and weed
They entangled her
And she's in too deep
She's in too far
Well you owed me nothing when we met
And it's less than nothing now
There's a new Juliet you greased in for your sack
Fooly old heavy Juliet
Haven't you seen
Haven't you heard
Haven't you seen
God's own mockingbird
Well you money rich morticians
Honey all the seamen's died
I dreamed I heard God's mockingbird
From his sacred churchyard fly
She was startled, stuttering, naked and torn
Shell shocked and shuddering, shaking her worn
Battered and broken bone backed by the storm
To a black loveless sky
Hey haven't you seen
Haven't you heard
Haven't you seen
God's mockingbird
Yeah as he lays you down to sleep
Who prayed each night for your soul to keep
With your sacred cow and your crushed crimson heart
Promises are cheap
Listen you can shut me down
You can freeze me out
Baby I'm not the clown
You should worry about
Where this drowned Phoenician sailor rocks
To the rhythms of his broken oars
It ain't over till the last siren calls
As Apus sun goes down on his hollow eyed whores
With soft sighs elicit from desolate shores
Your dead poet's gone but you'd still take his calls
Your last sea dog's sailed but you're still taking bets
Was it a something or a someone found in the nets
Nobody said
But Ophelia knows
As up he rose
Donned his clothes
As the last rose picked clean and the last crow goes west
The clocks are all stopped from God is not mocking
There's a serenade in silhouette
And he's climbing the walls for his Juliet
Hey hey Juliet
Did they sign you off file and forget
Hush little mockingbird don't say a word
Cause it still ain't over yet
Written by: David Knopfler

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