The Yellow-billed Cuckoo

歌詞

Yellow-billed cuckoo sittin' on that fence Looking both ways like he don't have no sense Sense of direction and sense of trust But he knows something in this land of dust And I sat lookin' in her deep blue eyes At her dark black hair and her little white lies Lies of contrition and lies of deceit Lying to herself and lying to me (chorus:) Has he heard you singing that wavering song That don't know the difference 'tween right and wrong Has he heard you wishing that you were free Like the yellow-billed cuckoo that follows me A distant storm lightening up the sky Frightening the horses that are ready to ride Leaves on the trees turning inside-out Gonna break loose, no shadow of doubt (repeat chorus) Wildflowers bloom on a little bit of rain A little bit of hope on a desolate plain Wildflowers wither underneath the strain Of the wildfire burning up another man's name (repeat chorus)