Blackbirds Rise Lyrics - Singles - Victoria Williams

Graveyard musty and cold 

Smells of autumn, smells of mold 

Pick up truckload full of bones 

There to play a few songs to one who's gone 

There there child don't you cry 

Ain't it good to see a field of blackbirds rise 

Some flew east and some flew west 

You come flying after the rest, darling always 

After everything we've read and seen 

Somebody leave but I'll stay 

Calling she's calling 

From another day 

Calling she's calling 

Can't you come over here little girl 

Turn over my grave 

Shoo fly don't bother me 

Shoo fly don't bother me 

Some flew east and some flew west 

You come flying after the rest, darling always 

After everything we've read and seen 

Somebody leave but I'll stay 

The sun goes down across the land 

Mother earth meets father time and takes his hand 

And one is all, all is one again 

Can we be good friends, can we be good 

Can we be, can we, can 

If you have friends in glory land 

Who left because of pain 

Thank God up there they'll die no more 

They'll suffer not again