As Birds Do

(C)1999 S.D. Sims


I should be close to you forever
Wherever did things go wrong?
But thing were going nowhere
And we knew it all along


You are never there for me
I can’t help but wonder why
How can we go on living
When all we do is die?


I feel as though I’m nothing to you
You say I’m always in your heart
But we’re always going nowhere
And I feel us drifting slowly apart


You don’t know anything
You don’t know anything at all
You just don’t know me
You don’t know me at all


There’s nothing else you can do
Nothing left for me and you
Just fly away as birds do
As birds do, I can live without you


We should be happy ever after
But we have grown so tired and pale
Now however many times I try
Every fucking time I fail


Although I try to love you
I seem to hurt you every time
I did not mean to treat you bad
I did not know that we could die


But now I know I’m nothing to you
You say you’re always there for me
You say I’m always on your mind
Yet I feel you backing slowly away


You don’t know me
You don’t know me at all
And I don’t know you
I don’t know you anymore


There’s nothing left for you to do
Nothing left for me and you
Just fly away as birds do
As birds do, I can live without you


Thinking about you
Is all that I can do
Even after all that
We put each other through


But now your heart is cold
And it’s made of stone
And when I look into your icy eyes
Something in there tells me I’d be better off alone


You don’t know anything
You don’t know anything at all
You just don’t know me
You don’t know me anymore


There’s nothing else I can do
There’s nothing left for me and you
Just fly away as birds do
Take to the sky as birds do


Turn away and fly as birds do
And I’m going to try as birds do
To reach for the skies as birds do
And, as birds do, I can do without you


I can live without you


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