Emily Smith Come Home Pretty Bird
Come home pretty bird
It’s past your time
And the world’s spinning cycle
Won’t unwind
Won’t leave you suspended
Hanging on a cloud
It will carry you along somehow
Come home pretty bird
You’ve been too long away
And the brightness of your plumage
Won’t suit that winter grey
Come home to the summer
That’s where you belong
I missed your pretty song today
Oh I missed your pretty song
I missed your pretty song
I missed your pretty song today
They’ll be stuck there on the motorway
While the weather man says it’s snow
I’ll be out there, in the garden
Waiting for your sweet hello
All the birthdays forgotten
And conversations missed
We grow tired and resentful
For those we might have kissed
All the people going home
And people being born
They carry you along somehow
Oh they carry you along, they carry you along
They carry you along somehow
Oh they carry you along, carry you along
They carry you along somehow
