ELTON JOHN - High Flying Bird lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album don't shoot me I'm only the piano player<br><br>You wore a little cross of gold around your neck<br>I saw it as you flew between my reason<br>Like a raven in the night time when you left<br>I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name<br>You touched it and you wore it<br>And you kept it in your pillow all the same<br><br>My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms<br>I thought myself her keeper<br>She thought I meant her harm<br>She thought I was the archer<br>A weather man of words<br>But I could never shoot down<br>My high-flying bird<br><br>The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red<br>You bled upon the cold stone like a young man<br>In the foreign field of death<br>Wouldn't it be wonderful is all I heard you say<br>You never closed your eyes at night and learned to love daylight<br>Instead you moved away