Once I was a bird On your shoulder, I could rest Looking through your telescope The sun had risen in the west I have risen too You have crafted me anew You've sewn me a new pair of lungs Have I honored you? I will fly above the world Beyond your cloudy skies And when the ground is shattering You will hear my lonely cries I'll bury you with what you've made In our windmill, you can rest Should I finish what you left Was it meant for me? Have I honored you? In my lonely palace, I sit above your town I meant to give them flight but then the people began to drown So now I'll leave them to themselves Without their bonds to the sky They'll do what I told them every day And they won't question why Their heads are full of fish and corn And their ears are full of salt They can hear the ocean through their noses They don't know that it's my fault Now they live every day in a different mind I only meant to do you good, how was I so blind?