Beau - Birds lyrics

Come you who ask of me All of your questions and your answers - Your poets and your painters, Your singers and your dancers On stages lit by lanterns; The shadows of the candle, Unfolding in the alleys Leading to the greater scandal… And somehow through the din, someone sings A song of a million wings… Follow the swallow, after the eagle, After the magpie, after the starling, After the kestrel, after the sparrow After the bluebird, after the heron, After the gannet, after the puffin, After the penguin Follows the lemming… Come sane and sane together, The starling in your reason That makes you follow blindly On the leader of the season Will take you through the blackness That is flapping all around you, And take you through your senses And finally confound you, And land you where you did not wish to go… And talk to you in words you do not know… Follow the swallow, after the eagle, After the magpie, after the starling, After the kestrel, after the sparrow After the bluebird, after the heron, After the gannet, after the puffin, After the penguin Follows the lemming… Come you who light the candles Like no one ever lit them, Who fashion cloaks for guilty men And fashion men to fit them; Whose guarantee of profit Is the price of every silence; Whose livelihood is diarising Cruelty and violence. Let he who goes guiltless throw the stone. Let those who falsely witness, go home… Follow the swallow, after the eagle, After the magpie, after the starling, After the kestrel, after the sparrow After the bluebird, after the heron, After the gannet, after the puffin, After the penguin Follows the lemming…