Silver Bird Lyrics

Far away, ́cross sands and sea

A family crowded by the radio

Fathers silenced the crying children

Mothers held their babies ever so tightly

On this evening they heard them fall

In a daze he woke up after a late night

On the screen the news seemed so far away

He cracked a joke he did not know

Then he read all the lines

Eyes wide he felt the agony grow

As he saw them fall

See the smoke rise

See our world broken

See the dust

Of our futures

Finally the doors swung open to the longest of corridors

Running and playing she heard her mother ́s warnings

A tongue for her mother a tongue for the boy smiling her down

She laughed in his face and they played and

Found a room with an awesome view

But why was her mother so distressed

Why on this beautiful day

Far away there was a silver bird

A sparkling silver bird

Her mother screamed and dragged her away

She hurt her arm but she pushed on

Through empty halls soon filled with chaos

And then the bang, then the smoke

The the rubble, then the heat

And she was alone