Learning To Fly

from Status Crow by Constant Reader

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Picture me, arrayed all in black
With shiny feathers up and down my back
And I'm outside your window and I'm calling your name
Even though I know you can't understand what I say

And I'm so afraid that you will never see me at all
And it turns out that learning to fly ain't like learning to fall
And I hope that somehow you will feel when I'm flying above
And if not then I hope that you will sense I'm sending you my love

Picture me in a field of green
And I'm standing on the shoulders of something
Something that's meant to scare me away
But I'm right outside our house and here I will stay

And I'm so afraid that you will never see me at all
And it turns out that learning to fly ain't like learning to fall
And I hope that somehow you will feel when I'm flying above
And if not then I hope that you will sense I'm sending you my love

When I went to heaven, I finally got my wings
But no halos, harps or golden crowns
Not those heavenly things
Even now, I'm still no angel
I'm not dressed in long white robes
They sent me back all dressed in black
To love you as a crow

And I'm so afraid that you will never see me at all
And it turns out that learning to fly ain't like learning to fall
And I hope that somehow you will feel when I'm flying above
And if not then I hope that you will sense I'm sending you my love

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from Status Crow, released December 17, 2013
Words and music by Anthony Bowman

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Constant Reader makes sad goth folk music in Midwestern bedrooms.

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