Lonely Sky

The cold north wind they call "La Bise" Is swirling round about my knees.

In medievial times, peasents reffered to there fowl smelling gaseous profusions as 'La Bise' hence 'swirling round about my knees'

"Trees are crying leaves into the river"

if you were a tree and De Burgh produced a 'La Bise' you'd cry your leaves off into the river too.

"I'm huddled in this french café I never thought I'd see the day, But winter's here and summer's really over, Even the birds have packed up and gone, They're flying south with their song, And my love, she too has gone, she had to fly"

he huddle in the cafe to escape the waft of 'La Bise' even he found it too overpowering.

the effect of it all has bought about mass misgration of birds and the onset of winter (let this be a warning to us all on the effects off gaseous emissions or 'la bise')

"They'll trap your wings my love and hold your flight, They'll build a cage and steal your only sky, Fly away, fly to me, fly when the wind is high, I'm sailing beside you in your lonely sky..."

it's fairly self explanatory when read with the verses, all the mentions of wind and flying and sailing in the sky possibly eluding to the gaseous psychedlic effects of 'la bise'

"The old cathedral lights are low She and I we'd often go there To admire and sometimes kneel in prayer; "

well, after a brisk southwesterly 'La Bise' you might well pay for your life.

I think the final verse reminds us of the possible disastrous outcome of 'la bise' (possibly the 'El Ninio' of medieval times'

perhaps the whole song is wrapped up by saying a stiff breeze, know as 'la bise' will cause much harm to the world.