Singing Blackbird

If you were a river, you'd run like hell

I whisper you my secret and I know you'd never tell

You're safe like a house with no front door

I open up a window and I only feel the cold

Yes, I saw the cover of a big old book

Over in the corner and you never pick it up

Red wine ran in your mother's blood

How you gonna show me that she taught you 'bout love?

And I've been chasing all things backwards

I've been making more bad habits

I can't keep meeting you here in silence

If we go right now, they're singing blackbirds

If I was a tiger, I'd change my stripes

Leave 'em at the door and I'll run off in the night

Bury all my money in my old backyard

Next to where our dog and the agapanthus

I saw it coming like a big old train

Coming off it's tracks and I know who I could blame

Is that black smoke heavy in your mother's lungs

How you gonna show me that she taught you 'bout love?

And I've been chasing all things backwards

I've been making more bad habits

I can't keep meeting you here in silence

If we go right now, they're singing blackbirds

And I've been chasing all things backwards

I've been making more bad habits

I can't keep meeting you here in silence

If we go right now, they're singing blackbirds

And I've been chasing all things backwards

I've been making more bad habits

I can't keep meeting you here in silence

If we go right now, they're singing blackbirds

I've been chasing all things backwards

I've been making more bad, bad habits

I can't keep meeting you here in silence

If we go right now, they're singing blackbirds