For The Birds

[Verse 1] Come a Summer afternoon Sit down with your guitar Write something good and true I know, I know it's hard You've been grasping after melodies Like fireflies in the dark But you never find the words This music thing might be for the birds [Verse 2] Come the sudden realization The world is at its end Crows call for civilization They circle overhead Think they've seen the planet die before Now they're watching it again In a hundred years We'll all be for the birds [Chorus] Be a friend to me tonight I need it Think the end is near in sight I see it Be a friend to me tonight I need it I need it [Verse 3] Sitting by your window waiting For inspiration to strike Sing your heart out little sparrow It never comes out right But you listen to the mockingbirds Make music all the night And you still can't write a verse Forget about it, leave it for the birds [Verse 4] You've been thinking that it's just too hard To justify going on Shivering in a blanket Drunk and half naked on your front lawn Then you hear the Carolina Chickadee Singin' at the crack of dawn And you guess life could be worse Come to think about it If it weren't for the birds [Chorus] Be a friend to me tonight I need it Think the end is near in sight I see it Be a friend to me tonight I need it I need it [Outro] I need it