Never Learn To Fly Lyrics - Pain Of Salvation

[Japanese bonustrack] 

[music & lyrics: daniel gildenlow] 

When I was a little child, I once found a bird lying on the ground. 

It would not ever fly again. 

I held the bird up in my hands, I shed my tears over the lovely song that 

not longer could be heard. 

Never learn to fly. 

With dirty hands I dug a hole and gently laid the bird to rest in soil: 

a wound in the tear stained mud. 

My tears wore rain as I revealed the secrets of a tree. 

A cross of bark to speak through wooden grains: 

"never learn to fly" 

I sang a song which I remembered my grandma used to sing 

for me, when I was sick and laid in bed. 

Then I cursed that day for showing me my own mortality 

for then I knew that all that lives turns cold. Cold and dead. 

And now time has passed by beneath my wings. 

[kristoffer gildenlow] 

That was then I'm older now, but still I can't forget that rainy day. 

I raged against the ending times, though some day soon my son will maybe 

find the tree I cleansed of skin. 

No chain-sling will ever climb its rotten limbs. 

And when the time has come for me to die, I want to lie beside that bird. 

Never learn to fly. 

When I was a little child, I once found myself dying on the ground 

and now I'll never ...fly...