Little Bird

Song Little Bird
Artist Lisa Hannigan
Album Passenger

Lyrics

[00:17.54] Your heart sings like a kettle
[00:22.88] and your words, they boil away like steam.
[00:28.71] A lie burns long while the truth bites quick,
[00:35.07] a heart is built for both it seems.
[00:38.91]
[00:40.67] You are lonely as a church,
[00:45.10] despite the queuing out your door.
[00:50.52]
[00:52.15] I am empty as a promise, no more.
[01:01.51]
[01:06.67] When the time comes,
[01:11.48] and rights have been read,
[01:17.09] I think of you often
[01:21.27] but for once I meant what I said.
[01:27.49]
[01:38.13] I was salted by your hunger,
[01:43.84] now you've gone and lost your appetite
[01:49.01]
[01:49.60] and a little bird is every bit as handy in a fight.
[01:59.64]
[02:01.20] I am lonely as a memory
[02:06.71] despite the gathering round the fire.
[02:11.46]
[02:13.71] Aren't you every bird on every wire?
[02:25.68]
[02:27.31] When the time comes,
[02:31.79] and rights have been read,
[02:37.42] I think of you often
[02:41.61] but for once I meant what I said.
[02:47.97] Here I stay, I lay me down,
[02:54.61] in a house by the Hill.
[02:59.99]
[03:00.92] Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
[03:11.17] Here I stay, I lay me down,
[03:17.66] in a house by the Hill.
[03:22.49]
[03:23.93] Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
[03:34.93] Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
[03:46.63] Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.