Amelia Curran - Blackbird On Fire lyrics

I loved you like a meteor It cannot change its path It's pealed by speed and fire Just kamikaze ash And like dust on dust We follow No cradle for regard No grave to bury sorrow in And no arrows in our hearts And yet, bleeding mild forgiveness Confessions did not earn But whispered to the witnesses All waiting for their turn [CHORUS] And I,-I,-I Get tired of tired Awakened by the weight of the common human state And the metaphor: Black bird on fire On soft mahogany Doesn't carry any key Like a bead inside of a barrel I'll be burned before I'm free Like a universal soldier I am my own worst enemy And I have tamed the tide of failure I have turned the looking gla** I have harvested the future And I have paralyzed the past But with one eye closed I'm folding to a recent memory when that universal soldier meant everything to me