Hank Snow - Like A Bird (Spread My Wings And Fly) Lyrics
You look so pretty lyin' there, with dreamland's smile upon your faceYour golden curls in disarray, upon your starched white pillow caseThe soft blue satin covers pulled up tight around your lovely throatIt almost makes me want to go, destroy the message on the noteThe note I wrote upon your perfumed stationary, by the phoneI hate to think about you waking up at dawn, to find me goneIt hurts me so to get up, in the middle of the night and goBut thinking back, I do remember faintly that I told you soI told you, I was like a bird a free and wild and restless thingAnd even though I take a mate and build a nest in early springWhen summer winds have had their day and winter clouds are flyin' highInstinctively I spread my wings and flyI only know why but I must go and nothing here must hold me backI like the love you gave me and the tender way you scratched my backI like your warm sweet kisses and the way you cook your ham and eggsI like the way the suntan lotion softened up your lovely legsI like the static noise I heard when you would sit and brush your hairThe way you gave yourself to me and never asked to go nowhereBut most of all I like the way you always smiled and never frownedThe way you took this chance for love and took me just for what I amI told you, I was like a bird a free and wild and restless thingAnd even though I take a mate and build a nest in early springWhen summer winds have had their day and winter clouds are flyin' highInstinctively I spread my wings and flyAnd now, my darling, as I leave I fight the yearning in my bloodTo wake you up and love you, just once more before I go for goodBut somehow I am fighting back my passion for I cannot stayAnd someday you'll look back and know best it ended up this wayI told you, I was like a bird a free and wild and restless thingAnd even though I take a mate and build a nest in early springWhen summer winds have had their day and winter clouds are flyin' highInstinctively I spread my wings and fly, I fly I fly
