Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song Lyrics - David Wilcox

My old addiction 

Changed the wiring in my brain 

So that when it turns the switches 

Then I am not the same 

So like the flowers toward the Sun 

I will follow 

Stretch myself out thin 

Like there's a part of me that's already buried 

That sends me out into this window 

My old addiction 

Is a flood upon the land 

This tiny lifeboat 

Can keep me dry 

But my weight is all 

That it can stand 

So when I try to lean just a little 

For just a splash to cool my face 

Ahh that trickle 

Turns out fickle 

Fills my boat up 

Five miles deep 

My old addiction 

Makes me crave only what is best 

Like these just this morning song birds 

Craving upward from the nest 

These tiny birds outside my window 

Take my hand to be their mom 

These open mouths 

Would trust and swallow 

Anything that came along 

Like my old addiction 

Now the other side of Day 

As the springtime 

Of my life's time 

Turn's the other way 

If a swan can have a song 

I think I know that tune 

But the page is only scrawled 

And I am gone this afternoon 

But the page is only scrawled 

And I am gone this afternoon