Birds Without Wings Lyrics by David Gray

Birds Without Wings Lyrics

    Wishing that something would happen
    A change in this place
    'cos i'm tearing off the fancy wrapping
    Find an empty package

    Take for a while
    Your trumpet from your lip
    Loosen your hold loosen your grip
    On your old ways
    That have fallen out of step
    In a changing time
    Hoist a new flag
    Hoist a new flag

    Angry sun burn down
    Judging us all
    Guilty of neglect and disrespect
    And thinking small

    And death by boredom
    And death by greed
    If we can't stop taking
    More than we need

    But across the fractured landscape
    I see the same things
    Tired ideas
    Birds without wings

    Birds without wings
    Birds without wings

    And these are just thoughts
    Of lack lustre times
    I've no interest
    In excuses you can find

    Like you've had a hard day
    Now you're too tired to care
    Now you're too tired to care
    You've had a hard day

    Well across the fractured landscape
    I see the same things
    Tired ideas broken values
    Many with the notion
    That to share is to lose
    A hollow people bound by a lack
    Of imagination and too much looking back
    Without the courage to give a new thing a chance
    Grounded by this ignorance

    (and the cat comes)
    We're just,
    Birds without wings
    Birds without wings
    Birds without wings

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