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Babybird Lyrics
Come back babybird
With your dirty wings in tatters
Come home where you belong
Nobody knows you better
Now bring back your velvet heart
And we'll make you brand new feathers
Sleep through the morning light
With your arms around your brother
Babybird
Come back home
Babybird
You were never really on your own
Now outside faces cry
With the tears of lonesome orphans
And behind every mask
Is the face of another
Wherever you have been
Wherever you took cover
No arms that pulled you in
Could hold you like your mother
Babybird
Come back home
Babybird
You were never really on your own
When all my colors fade
And my wings, they've turned to leather
I'll know the reason why
God let me get older
When all my days are through
And I fly these hills no longer
I'll lay beneath the stars
And I'll watch you flying over
Babybird
Come back home
Babybird
You were never really on your own
Babybird
Come back home
Babybird
You will never be all alone
With your dirty wings in tatters
Come home where you belong
Nobody knows you better
And we'll make you brand new feathers
Sleep through the morning light
With your arms around your brother
Come back home
Babybird
You were never really on your own
With the tears of lonesome orphans
And behind every mask
Is the face of another
Wherever you took cover
No arms that pulled you in
Could hold you like your mother
Come back home
Babybird
You were never really on your own
And my wings, they've turned to leather
I'll know the reason why
God let me get older
And I fly these hills no longer
I'll lay beneath the stars
And I'll watch you flying over
Come back home
Babybird
You were never really on your own
Come back home
Babybird
You will never be all alone
Song Info
Submitted by
daz_spaz On Apr 27, 2002
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This is my favorite song on the album, the most beautiful modern lullaby I've heard in a while.
This song is beautiful. Jakob wrote it for his sons, and it's just so sweet.
it's so sweet. :-)
and last night I heard it for the first time with the FULL BAND. I can't get it out of my head, it was so amazing. wow. I didn't think that it could be good with the full band. instead, I stand corrected.
ubelievable coming from the wallflowers!! one of the few songs one thier album breach, which is in my opinion thier worst album!!
A great closing song to Breach. I personally loved Breach.
Long,ago my boyfriend nicknamed me Bird. We married, lost each other nd then, lost a child. But I never gave up hope. We are soul mates, and although I think he believes this, too, he's still lost in a lifetime of hurts. I hurt him and he left me, though I begged for forgiveness. I said one day when we were old and gray, and far more forgiving of each other's youthful transgressions, we'd be together again ... watching sunsets from the front porch.
guess we have to be older and much more gray because at 55 and 56, it's still just a dream. I believed those lyrics could've been written for me and Stuart. I'll always think it, no matter what anyone else may say of that song. He's asking me to come home, no matter how the world has battered me, and oh, it has ... just come home and make him laugh again. I could SO make him laugh, too. My adorable guy. One day ... maybe in a different life, but one day ...