One with the Birds - David Gray

Leave me alone, is all that I say

When I have nothing, in me to give away

A purple martin in her house, she hollers at me

Why be inhuman?

Why be like me?

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Like so many robins, like so many doves

Like so many lovebirds with so many loves

Like the songs of the bobwhite

Without any words

When we are inhuman we’re one with the birds

At six in the morning, you rise from the pillow

Stand steaming above me, I slumber below

You’re one with the blankets, hanging fragrant and loose

You’re one with a whipporwill,

You’re one with a goose

Chorus

So tweet with me and widely spread

Your golden wings around my bed

And fly with me 'til we all are dead

And one with the birds

Like so many seagulls

Like so many hawks

Like so many thrushes

And so many storks

A little swallow will tell you

Without using heartrending, misleading words

When we are inhuman

We’re one with the birds

«And if we hide our feelings, we may as well fly away»