Gray David Birds Without Wings Lyrics

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 don't stop taking

 more than we need

 

 But across the fractured landscape

 I find the same things

 tired ideas

 birds without wings

 

 Birds without wings

 birds without wings

 

 And these are just thoughts

 on 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

 oh 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