Jesca Hoop - City Bird lyrics

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City bird, city bird

Fly away

From my window

From my window

‘Cause you don’t sing

Like the birds from home sing

Your song is dying

I set the table

For the ghosts in my home

My home

And pour the wine

And raise a glass for the guests in my home

They enter in

In their skin and in their bones

Still in their bones

The vision scares

But none compares

To the dread of drinking alone

After the tower was turned to a tomb

The underworld

Refugees all were refused by the banker

They can never go in

So I let them in

City bird, city bird

Fly away

From my window

From my window

‘Cause you don’t sing

Like the birds from home sing

Your song is dying

I light the candle

For the ghosts

In my home

My home

And say a prayer

To please send care for the guests in my home

But in their sleep

They claw and scream the Devil home

The devil’s come home

But that nightmare

Does not compare

To the demons of sleeping alone

After the tower was turned to a tomb

The underworld

Refugees all were refused by the banker

And with nowhere to go

They will show up

City bird, city bird

Fly away

From my window

From my window

‘Cause you don’t sing

Like the birds from home sing

Your song is dying