Beautiful South The Blackbird On The Wire Lyrics

Blackbird On The Wire Lyrics

(heaton/rotheray)

 Eyes to take you dancing

 Mouth to leave your wife

 Legs to run away with

 And you wonder why?

 

 Heart that makes you bypass

 Every other girl

 Smile that keeps you grinning

 At the madness of this world

 

 But like the blackbird on the wire

 I will not take the prey on you

 You wouldn't want me to

 For i am too soft for such a thing

 And like the blackbird on the wire

 I just watch you by

 The tears i knew i'd cry

 Fall unnoticed down below

 

 Front to make you happy

 Back to make you weep

 Lips to keep you kissing

 Whilst everyone's asleep

 

 Tears to break a backbone

 Laughs to win a war

 And people come and ask me

 What i love you for

 

 But like the blackbird on the wire

 I will not take the prey on you

 You wouldn't want me to

 For i am too soft for such a thing

 And like the blackbird on the wire

 I just watch you by

 The tears i knew i'd cry

 Fall unnoticed down below

 

 And with a tongue built from quicksilver

 And a character of steel

 They actually come and ask me

 How i feel

 

 But like the blackbird on the wire

 I will not take the prey on you

 You wouldn't want me to

 For i am too soft for such a thing

 And like the blackbird on the wire

 I just watch you by

 The tears i knew i'd cry

 Fall unnoticed down below