Simon Joyner - Came a Yellow Bird Lyrics

Came a Yellow Bird


Came a yellow bird outside my window
She said, "Bring me water and crusts of bread
For I'm injured and I'm haunted
By the storms from which I've fled


I tried to fly to New Orleans
But I got lost in heavy rains
And I have many holes in my two wings
From arrows that you aimed"


"It wasn't I who wounded you
I haven't any arrows I could shoot
You see I'm just a lonely man
And I've never left this room"


"Besides," said I, "How on earth could I
Hurt anything so frail as thee
When we never met before the moment
When you called out for help from me?"


Now the yellow bird stepped down into my room
And she chose her words carefully
She said, "You were aiming for the sun
And I was just in between


And every time you wihsed to die
An arrow was released
And the only thing between dark and light
Was my breast or yellow wings"


"But your wishes were so strong," she said,
"that I couldn't fly much longer
Without some water to cleanse my wounds
And a crust of bread for my hunger"


"This can't be true," I shook with fear
Though I knew she didn't lie
"I never meant to harm anybody else
It was just I who wished to die"


And then the tears came rolling down
And the floor fell underneath
And the yellow bird folded her wings together
And I dragged her down with me