Zen Archer

[Verse 1]

Pretty bird with feathers falling

Pretty as a lady calling

For her pink and midnight lover

As she stares into the water

And a yellow moon is rising

And there can't be no disguising

That the pretty bird is dying

With a silver arrow lying at its side

[Bridge 1]

Rivers of blood, oceans of tears

Life without death and death without reason

[Verse 2]

To the whole United Nations

To your greatest expectations

To the moment that you realize

As a dark figure slips from out of the shadows

[Chorus]

Pretty bird closes its eyes

Pretty bird dies

Another pretty thing dead

On the end of the shaft

Of the Zen Archer

[Verse 3]

A man in parts forgotten

With an outlook that is rotten

And an attitude to match it

Finds relief inside a hatchet

And he halved someone in Boulder

Justifiability is in

The hands of the beholder

And you just don't know

What people will do next

[Bridge 2]

Mountains of pain, valleys of love

Death without life and life without meaning

[Verse 4]

To the promise kept and broken

To the love that's never spoken

Just as surely as I'm in your ears

A dark figure slips from out of the shadows

[Chorus]

Pretty bird closes its eyes

Pretty bird dies

Another pretty thing dead

On the end of the shaft

Of the Zen Archer