Fluttering Wings

©1998 Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Shadow of a Wing

Still these fluttering wings
Fold them in by me
Stop these flutterings
Quietly

Still and stern I walk a road
Where judge and jury beg to live
You are there to take the blame
Where I am hardest to forgive

Still these fluttering wings
Fold them in by me
Stop these flutterings
Quietly

All we did and all we had
Everywhere the meaning was
Left half-hearted on the grass
In spite of, or just because

Still these fluttering wings
Fold them in by me
Stop these flutterings
Quietly

Do not bring the cup to me
Of all you think, and all I do
Brace and be the cup to me
Where we can be the water too

Still these fluttering wings
Fold them in by me
Stop these flutterings
Quietly

Lay aside your lying ways
For truth holds all of mystery
And Love, within this failing light
Show my lover whole to me

And lift our promise from disgrace
Wrap it in a stronger will
Bind it in a fond embrace
Where all is change, I hold you still

Still these fluttering wings
Fold them in by me
Stop these flutterings
Quietly