Blue Bird on the Sky

Verse 1

Morning came up broken on the south side hill

Rain had washed the street till the pavement stood still

I was walking slow with nowhere left to go

When a flash of blue cut the gray and low

Perched on the telephone wire like a note left to sing

Bluest thing this whole town had seen in anything

Wings tucked tight against the weather's bite

And I stopped where I stood in the fading light

Chorus

Blue bird on the wire come look at me

Blue bird on the wire setting my heart free

You don't fear the past and you don't dread the fall

Sing me one more time till I hear the call

Verse 2

Now you don't move an inch when the wind rolls through

You just hold your spot like you got something to prove

And I laughed out loud at the fool I'd been

Too scared to build when I could just begin

You sit still like the truth I keep putting down

Listening to the hum of these tired old towns

Stay right there brother while I find my feet

Lord the longer you stay the more I feel complete

Chorus

Blue bird on the wire come look at me

Blue bird on the wire setting my heart free

You don't fear the past and you don't dread the fall

Sing me one more time till I hear the call

Verse 3

Tell me is it heavy where you sit up high

(Heavy) Nothing weighs you down except the empty sky

Tell me do you ever wish you had my two feet

(Two feet) Counting every mile down this hollow street

Tell me when the night rolls in does the dark get lonesome

(Lonesome) Or do you just turn south and let the morning come

Tell me one more thing before I lose my nerve

(Nerve) How long must a man wait till he deserves

Guitar Solo

Verse 4

Then the wire gave a shiver and the blue bird spread

Color pouring off like the words I never said

One long cry above the rooftops and gone

And something in my chest felt it catch the dawn

I tossed my old coat in the dust and the rain

Took a step toward the road I'd every night explain

If a little bird can fly when the sky looks shut

Then I can leave behind the life I never shut

Chorus

Blue bird on the wire come look at me

Blue bird on the wire setting my heart free

You don't fear the past and you don't dread the fall

Sing me one more time till I hear the call

Outro

Sing one more time

(One more time)

Till I hear the call

(Hear the call)