Came a Yellow Bird

Came a yellow bird outside my window

Said bring me water and crusts of bread

Came a yellow bird outside my window

Said bring me water and crusts of break

For I'm injured and I'm haunted

By the storms in which I fled

I tried to fly to New Orleans

But I got lost in heavy rains

I tried to fly to New Orleans

But I got lost in heavy rains

I got many holes in my two wings

From arrows that you aimed

It wasn't I wounded you I didn't any arrows I could shoot

It wasn't I wounded you, any arrows I could shoot

I'm just a lonely man, I never left this room

Besides that I, how on earth could I

Hurt anything so frail as thee

Besides that I, how on earth could I

Hurt anything so frail as thee

When we've never met before this moment

When you called for help from me

Now yellow bird step down into my room

And she chose her words carefully

Yellow bird stepped down into my room

She chose her words carefully

She said you were aiming for the sun

And I was just in-between

And every time you wish to die

An arrow was released

every time you wish to die

An arrow was released

And the only thing between dark and light

Was my breast or yellow wings

Well this can't be true I shook with fear

Though I knew she didn't lie

This can't be true I shook with fear

Though I knew she couldn't lie

I never wanted to harm anybody else

It's just I who wish to die

And then the tears came rolling down

And the floor fell underneath

And then the tears came rolling down

And the floor fell underneath

And the yellow bird folded her wings together

And I dragged her down with me