| Blackbird, why you wearing that frown? | |
| Don't you know | |
| Jesus loves you and me and the preacher on | |
| T.V. you're putting down | |
| Blackbird, how | |
| I love to hear your songs | |
| I could spend all of my time in the shade of the trees and listen all day long [Chorus:] | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Was it me? | |
| I guess it don't matter anyway [Repeat chorus] [Bridge] | |
| 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 your candle | |
| But your love light doesn't shine | |
| You say you talk to angels | |
| Well I say it's such a lie [Repeat chorus] |