| Blackbird, why you wearing that frown? | |
| Don't you know | |
| Jesus loves you and me | |
| And the preacher on | |
| TV you're putting down? | |
| Blackbird, how | |
| I love to hear your songs | |
| But I could spend all of my time in the shade | |
| Of the trees and listen all day long | |
| Oh yeah, I could listen all day long | |
| But you're ever hearing, never understanding | |
| Ever seeing, not perceiving and your heart has grown callous | |
| You're in a storm and lost your way | |
| Won't you fly to heaven and be saved today? | |
| Blackbird, now you're broken your wing | |
| You try to fly high but you know that you | |
| Can't go anywhere, you can't do anything | |
| Blackbird, who put you in your cage | |
| Tell me, was it | |
| God or was it you or was it me? | |
| Well I guess it don't matter anyway | |
| No no, it don't matter, no, not anyway | |
| But you're ever hearing, never understanding | |
| Ever seeing, not perceiving and your heart has grown callous | |
| You're in a storm and lost your way | |
| Won't you fly to heaven and be saved today? | |
| Oh yeah, blackbird yeah | |
| You say you need a remedy | |
| For the thorn in your pride | |
| I think it's such a tragedy | |
| That you have left | |
| Him behind | |
| You say you'd light you candle | |
| But your love light doesn't shine | |
| You say you talk to angels | |
| Well I say it's such a lie | |
| Yes it is now, such a lie, lie, lie | |
| Oh but you're ever hearing, never understanding | |
| Ever seeing, not perceiving and your heart has grown callous | |
| You're in a storm and lost you way | |
| Won't you fly to heaven and be saved today? | |
| Oh yeah, blackbird yeah |