Black and Blue Bird

If I could fly at the speed of light

I could get to Canis Major in 5,000 years

Butterflies and black and blue birds

I'll never be the same since I met you, girl

Pennies thrown into a fountain

Make a wish, blow out the candles, take a breath

God is troubling when you consider

Believers that would welcome the end of the world

Got a job and it pays me

I want love more than I deserve

I read the paper, makes me crazy

Gotta be a way to make it work

Ashes, stardust

Look at us, climbin' out the mud

Let's go around the block

We'll make the most before the jig is up

Dreamers, the big top

High wires, the circus never stops

Ashes, stardust

Look at you, crawlin' out the mud

I know that dyin' is scary to us

But everybody do it, one, two, three

On the sidewalk, the dandelion

Is reaching from a crack up to the sun

Word can be a wicked tool for

Twisting truth, I wanna be true to you

Blood and bones, black holes and stones

All those things paved the way for you and me

Got a job and it pays me

I want love more than I deserve

The headlines they make me crazy

Gotta be a way to make it work

Ashes, stardust

Look at us, crawlin' out the mud

Let's go around the block

We'll make the most before the jig is up

Campfires, high rise

We did know quite when to stop

Ashes, stardust

Look at me, crawlin' out the mud

Butterflies and black and blue birds

I'll never be the same since I met you

If I could fly at the speed of light

I could get to Betelgeuse in about six hundred years

Butterflies and black and blue birds