Theresa Andersson - Birds Fly Away lyrics

I'm sitting on my stoop just thinking about the friends I used to know summers we spent outside slapping time on our thighs smiling at the boys walk by but then a breeze begins to blow and I know it's time to go inside but wait birds fly away they seek shelter trees stand strong they don't falter I'm walking down the street the people I pa**, we nod our heads and go shuffle our feet away, never more than hello one more we let slip by but like a photograph I took one of many in a book I lost to time don't fade away turn 'round stay for the day in my town birds fly away they seek shelter trees stand strong they don't falte