Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Canonical path: /herbie-hancock/sweet-bird
Related lyric paths: 6
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Sweet Bird
Read Sweet Bird lyrics by Herbie Hancock on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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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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Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching
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Who performs "Sweet Bird"?
Herbie Hancock performs "Sweet Bird", and this lyric page sits inside the Herbie Hancock catalog on LyroVerse.
Are there related songs to explore after "Sweet Bird"?
Yes. The related section below points to Edith and the Kingpin (Feat Tina Turner) and I Just Called To Say I Love You (feat. Raul Mindon) with a short reason for opening each page next.
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