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