Fern Mackenzie - Bird Blind (I Can’t Go On Like This)

From the moment I saw your eyes sparkle at me I knew we were meant to be
And the first time we kissed neath the stars I knew you were the consummation of all beauty
I've heard a man should marry the woman who looks at him the way that you watched me sing
But I won't speak about what wrought that awful early end to the whole thing

You were so frail and fragile
And I was just a one winged grackle
But is it right for one of us to thrive
While the other barely survives?

Cos I can't go on like this
Not after all we did
No, I can't go on like this
How can I persist?

In comparison to you, darling, the whole of the fairer sex has been ruined for me
Looking for traces of you in some other girl's eyes simply is not doin' it for me
You were five minutes away but now you are a far-flung twelve hour flight
But what's worst of all is how we've yet to have the chance to try and do it right

There's no need to talk
I just wanna be your red-shouldered hawk
"An entire universe within a human being"
Well, the galaxies are bleeding

Cos I can't go on like this
Not after all we did
No, I can't go on like this
How can I persist?

Come on over here
Lemme wipe away those tears
I'll braid flowers in your hair
Weaved like all those secrets we share
City of Stars
And poetry in the park
Blue light upon your face
Dream a dress of snow-white lace
Knocking knees together at that piano
That final night before you ran home
But I could go on and on
Cos you were such a phenomenon
Yours was the sweetest voice I've ever heard
I know I'll never find another like my little bird

I want to learn your life and hear everything you could ever say
So will you meet me in my dreams? For these are truly our final days
Could I find you in the early morning Ozarks when the hills are filled with fog?
Let me take you back to Belgium or maybe we can walk the streets of Prague
I wanna build you up to be so graceful and strong
And I want so much that I can't say in a song

That moonglow is gone
So will you let me into your garden at dawn?

Written by:
Fernando Mackenzie

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