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When I was a girl, I had a favourite story |
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Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind |
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Her voice could match the angels in its glory, |
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But she was blind, |
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The lark was blind. |
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An old king came and took her to his palace, |
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Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid, |
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And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed |
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Sing for me, my meadowlark |
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Sing for me of the silver morning. |
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Set me free, my meadowlark |
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And Ill buy you a priceless jewel, |
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And cloth of brocade and crewel, |
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And Ill love you for life if you will |
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Sing for me. |
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Than one day as the lark sang by the water |
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The God of the sun heard her in his flight |
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And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her |
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The gift of sight, |
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He gave her sight. |
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And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendour |
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Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong |
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And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender, |
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Come along, |
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Fly with me, my meadowlark, |
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Fly with me on the silver morning. |
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Past the sea where the dolphins bark, |
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We will dance on the coral beaches, |
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Make a feast of the plums and peaches, |
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Just as far as your vision reaches, |
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Fly with me. |
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But the meadowlark said no, |
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For the old king loved her so, |
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She couldnt bear to wound his pride. |
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So the sun God flew away and when the king came down that day, |
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He found his meadowlark had died. |
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Every time I heard that part I cried. |
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And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy. |
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Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb, |
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A beautiful young man appears before me |
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Singing come |
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Oh, wont you come? |
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And what can I do if finally for the first time |
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The one Im burning for returns the glow? |
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If love has come at last its picked the worst time |
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Still I know |
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Ive got to go. |
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Fly away, meadowlark. |
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Fly away in the silver morning. |
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If I stay, Ill grow to curse the dark, |
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So its off where the days wont bind me. |
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I know I leave wounds behind me, |
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But I wont let tomorrow find me |
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Back this way. |
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Before my past once again can blind me, |
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Fly away. |
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And we wont wait to say goodbye, |
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My beautiful young man and i. |
