Two Birds
Riding your bike as fast as the windGoing up the hill on third avenue where the smell of flowers is overpoweringActing like an idiot as you shout out your summer song, full of brillianceI watched you from the windowWhile cursing my body
Back thenIn that secret placeAt the back of the cinema that was popular among the boysWhere blood oaths were swornAnything was possible thereWe didn't care and could do anything
"Yeah, adults are always afraid, but don't pay them any attention,"You murmured and closed the windowI had secrets tooEvery night in my dreams I was you
Then I met you for real on the weekend when I was taken to churchYou were sulking and looking awayYour eyes lit on me immediatelyWe laughed together and became fast friends as only children out age couldLight shone
I thought I'd always be the same as you, but I wasn'tIt was only that one dayI was just looking into the eyes of another bird in a cageI stopped having those dreams too
Somehow I'm an adult now, but I can still picture itSaying goodbye to you from inside my birdcageSaying goodbye, over and over againSaying goodbye, saying goodbyeA dream that never goes away, a figure that never goes away