To Chase Away The Birds

Black crows flying in your wheat field

Babies cryin', all you got's a paper shield

It don't make much sense to you

Who said it had to?

Most folks smile away the blues

I mean I, I guess they do

You never really know for sure

But I'm surviving on this hunch that everybody else is hurtin' too

He was crazy

Crazy but able

So he excused himself from cleaning up the stable

This is the way that horses die

This is the way you learn to lie-

By sacrificing the real and forgetting how to feal

I loved him like fire

We both had similar burning desires

He kept expecting it all to work out down here

I just hang on to holy fear

Now I know how far out I'm getting here

But it's a dark night walk- the life of fear

And I'm trying to choose the words

That'll chase away the birds

Good God, just hurry up and come down here