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Jill Freeman
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The Nightingale
Yesterday your birthday brought a shining gift a mechanical bird encrusted with gems it sang perfect songs again and again we played them till we knew them by heart
Outside our gate the nightingale soars on wing and song over trees here then gone sees lovers twined in shaded parks old men in boats bent to watch fish shimmer like dreams children running falling in streams calling 'Mother!'
The nightingale skims the everchanging 更多更詳盡歌詞 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔鏡歌詞網 play of clouds cool, then warm wet with rain light, then dark again
We like boxes, shining presents that never age mechanical birds that stay in their cage
But the nightingale's voice pierced my heart and beauty and death are flooding in like morning sun like passion's blood
Please forgive me love for I must break This beautiful mechanical bird before you wake
(Based on The Nightingale – Hans Christian Andersen)
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