Birds

We were the sailors in the summer

In the winter we climbed the hills

We were swimmers for a season

Even out to sea you'd see us

We left footsteps on the beaches

Trails of sand back to the road

There's nothing left there to teach us

Only the knowledge of your going

Were we folks you recognised

When we came into your view?

Did you notice who we were

Or were we strange shapes in truth?

Maybe it was how the light fell

Maybe just the time of day

Perhaps a storm had just passed over

Or perhaps we were never there

The land will surely come

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

As the birds

We were sailors in the summer

In the winter we stayed in

No one heard us break the water

Or saw our shapes on the horizon

We were strangers on the coast

Outsiders to the land

No one thought to ask us questions

No one thought to understand

We were prisoners to the city

We had nowhere else to go

All our dreams like fallen leaves

On some unremembered road

Sometimes no land would come

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

As the birds

We're high above jail walls and windows

We're high above the waves of worry

We're floating on the wind

Cause nothing can begin

To make us want to land again

One day

One day

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

One day we're gonna be free

As the birds