Herbie Hancock
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Sweet Bird

Sweet Bird lyrics by Herbie Hancock. Out on some borderline Some mark of inbetween I lay down golden-in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer...

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Sweet Bird

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Out on some borderline

Some mark of inbetween

I lay down golden-in time

And woke up vanishing

Sweet bird you are

Briefer than a falling star

All these vain promises on beauty jars

Somewhere with your wings on time

You must be laughing

Behind our eyes

Calendars of our lives

Circled with compromise

Sweet bird of time and change

You must be laughing

Up on your feathers laughing

Golden in time

Cities under the sand

Power, ideals and beauty

Fading in everyone's hand

Give me some time

I feel like I'm losing mine

Out here on this horizon line

With the earth spinning

And the sky forever rushing

No one knows

They can never get that close

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Herbie Hancock performs "Sweet Bird", and this lyric page sits inside the Herbie Hancock catalog on LyroVerse.

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