Birds Without Wings Lyrics - A Century Ends - David Gray

Wishing that something would happen 

A change in this place 

'Cause I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping 

Find an empty package 

Take for a while 

Your trumpet from your lip 

Loosen your hold, loosen your grip 

On your old ways 

That have fallen out of step 

In a changing time 

Hoist a new flag 

Hoist a new flag 

Angry sun burn down 

Judging us all 

Guilty of neglect and disrespect 

And thinking small 

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And death by boredom 

And death by greed 

If we can't stop taking 

More than we need 

But across the fractured landscape 

I find the same things 

Tired ideas 

Birds without wings 

Birds without wings 

Birds without wings 

And these are just thoughts 

On lack-lustre times 

I've no interest 

In excuses you can find 

Like you've had a hard day 

Now you're too tired to care 

Now you're too tired to care 

You've had a hard day 

Photos 

Well across the fractured landscape 

I see the same things 

Tired ideas, broken values 

Many with the notion 

That to share is to lose 

A hollow people bound by a lack 

Of imagination and too much looking back 

Without the courage 

To give a new thing a chance 

Grounded by this ignorance 

(and the cat comes) 

We're just 

Birds without wings 

Birds without wings 

Birds without wings