I Saw A Bird Fly Away Lyrics - Dar Williams

I asked the habitual party goer, 

Just how high she thought she'd get? 

And I asked the Ethereal Girls, 

(Ethereal Girls) 

If they were floating yet? 

And so I asked the light of the day 

"What's this rush for Heaven?" 

And I saw a bird fly away and I could not ask again 

The tabloid tainted actress knows 

The myth of higher ground 

The thing she got from playin' a nun 

She got from sleepin' around 

And so I asked the light of the day 

"What's this rush for Heaven?" 

And I saw a bird fly away and I could not ask again 

Do you feelin' the mother [Incomprehensible] 

The decaying in my tent? 

I wonder whose laughin' at 

And I've been running uphill 

Panting, punching at the air 

Fighting what's been pushing me down 

Like I can't see it there 

And so I asked the light of the day 

"What's this rush for Heaven?" 

And I saw a bird fly away and I could not ask again 

And I saw all this climbing, climbing 

Just as far from Heaven 

And I saw a bird fly away and I started climbing again 

Whose laughin' at 

Do you feelin' the mother [Incomprehensible] 

The decaying in my tent?