| Lyrics: | When I was a girl, I had a favourite story
Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers
wind
Her voice could match the angels' in its glory,
But she was blind,
The lark was
blind.
An old king came and took her to his palace,
Where the walls were burnished
bronze and golden braid,
And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he
prayed
"Sing for me, my meadowlark
Sing for me of the silver morning.
Set
me free, my meadowlark
And I'll buy you a priceless jewel,
And cloth of brocade and
crewel,
And I'll love you for life if you will
Sing for me."
Then one day
as the lark sang by the water
The god of the sun heard her in his flight
And her singing
moved him so, he came and brought her
The gift of sight,
He gave her sight.
And she
opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendour
Of this beautiful young god, so proud and
strong
And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender,
"Come
along,
Fly with me, my meadowlark,
Fly with me on the silver
morning.
Past the sea where the dolphins bark,
We will dance on the coral
beaches,
Make a feast of the plums and peaches,
Just as far as your vision
reaches,
Fly with me."
But the meadowlark said no,
For the old king loved
her so,
She couldn't bear to wound his pride.
So the sun god flew away and when the king
came down that day,
He found his meadowlark had died.
Every time I heard that part I
cried.
And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy.
Oh, just when I thought
my heart was finally numb,
A beautiful young man appears before me
Singing "Come
Oh,
won't you come?"
And what can I do if finally for the first time
The one I'm burning for
returns the glow?
If love has come at last it's picked the worst time
Still I
know
I've got to go.
Fly away, meadowlark.
Fly away in the silver
morning.
If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark,
So it's off where the days won't bind
me.
I know I leave wounds behind me,
But I won't let tomorrow find me
Back this
way.
Before my past once again can blind me,
Fly away.
And we
won't wait to say goodbye,
My beautiful young man and I |
