One With the Birds Songtext
von David Gray

Leave me alone
Is all that I say
When I have nothing
In me to give away

The purple martin in her house
She hollers at me
Why be inhuman?
Why be like me?

Like so many robins
Like so many doves
Like so many lovebirds
With so many loves
The song of the bobwhite
Without any words
When we are inhuman
We are one with the birds


At six in the morning
You rise from your pillow
Stand steaming above me
I slumber below
You′re one with the blankets
Hanging fragrant and loose
You're one with the whippoorwill
You′re one with the goose

Like so many robins
Like so many doves
Like so many lovebirds
With so many loves
The song of the bobwhite
Without any words
When we are inhuman
We are one with the birds

So twill with me
And widely spread
Your golden wings
Around my bed
And fly with me
Till we are dead
And one with the birds


Like so many seagulls
Like so many hawks
Like so many thrushes
Like so many storks
A little swallow will tell you
Without using heart-rending, misleading words
When we are inhuman
We are one with the birds

And if we hide our feelings
Then we may as well fly away