I give you this song For I want to forget my memory of you But I don't want the memory to be forgotten Therefore I'll sing these words As if they were someone else's I'll speak of him Instead of you And pretend the lines of this song Have always been there Bird what do you sing When the other is gone For those wings were the ones that you flew with And to enshroud these words Won't make them disappear Every word will be his from now on I've been waiting for a long time here It's been so cold without him near I've been waiting for a long time to see him here It's been so cold without him near I can change my words, I can cover them up In every birdsong, I will hear his song Every sound will encompass these words I know I know There's no bird that can compare to him at all To him at all