Being A Mockingbird

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[Verse 1]
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   When the night it rests like a hammerblow
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and breaks the morning it brings
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For the mad men are down on the crypt floor
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sleeping through their favours and sins
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Well I trained myself to be hardened
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and I greet the bird like the day
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Well I soared to greet lusty gamblings
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and drenched myself in the dusk where they lay

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[Verse 2]
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Oh, I exchanged the dark for the darkness
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and I hung the belt from the wing
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So the traitors may part with their malice
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but I'll remember everything
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So I stood up and danced round the heckles
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and I planted the leaf from the book
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Well I admit I love my romances
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the blackbird, the wren, the rook

[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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For the church house won't part with the coffins
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but the docks they whittle their ships
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Until the pleasure the feast and the memory
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and the soar of kissing her lips
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Well I gave myself to the dawning,
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of the morning bird in first flight
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Well I'm sure I ran the road of the pauper

[Outro]
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I lost it all in the night
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I lost it all in the night