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"See How Both Of You Will Fly" | genre: Acoustic | |
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A kind of quirky love song about the mechanics of hope. Live recording from Black Dog Coffee Bar, St. Paul, MN, 16 January 1999. | MP3.com CD: This Side Of Paradise - buy it!
CD: This Side Of Paradise
Label: Independent
Credits: Music and words by Nigel Parry; Guitar and Vocals by Nigel Parry; Additional percussion by Peter Thomas. |
Story Behind the Song
A kind of quirky love song about the mechanics of hope.
Lyrics
although there's so much happening on the ground
i can't take my eyes away from the sky.
it started one dawn in pipestone,
i was walking in the milky light when two birds flew by.
i knew who they were supposed to be
i was waiting for the 'why?'
when the spirit knelt and whispered,
"see how both of you will fly."
some say when two walk side by side
they lock themselves in a cage tied to the ground
but these two birds - alive -
possessed a burning joy that silenced all such sound.
and they wheeled and danced and soared
making gravity a lie.
in the car crash of this world
decided that despair must die.
see how both of you will fly.
i've come to understand that a symbol's power
can keep you alive when it's darkest night.
i've stood in crowds, on mountaintops
seen them set on fire by light
but mostly kind of whispered
like leather on a knife
gifts of hope to wait on
and watch play out into life
such as:
see how both of you will fly.
sometimes when you think a symbol's time has come
two birds fly past again.
it's the same word, perhaps a different verb
given a new spin.
and one day when you're wondering
if the sentence ever ends
you see/hear/feel the click
and it blossoms like the smile of a friend.
see how both of you will fly.
will you believe as i believe
that magic need never end?
that everything that's broken
one day we will see mend?
as the unseen brings new life each morning
and the river makes the desert sigh
I heard the spirit whisper,
"see how both of you will fly."
25 June 1998
Medicine Wheel Ranch, Saskatchwan, Canada.
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