Original Digital Artwork by Linda White


Up came the man with a glass in his hand - He said 'I listened to you tonight.
What happened to the gentle, sad songs? Those are the ones I liked!'
I said 'I've given up suffering for the sake of my art and now I'm running where the honey melts...
So take your masochistic tendencies and satisfy 'em somewhere else.'

CHORUS:
I'm going to sit on the shelf, keep myself to myself, if only for today.
I won't dissect what I feel, like some vast meal, for the gathering birds of prey.
What I was with you, and what we've gone through, they're ours alone, God knows!
And I can't stand to bare us, to cut up and share us, with the eagles and the crows....



the gathering birds of prey



The stage has become a badland - where the rivers of pity run dry.
And my songs are the bones of the stories of the people who passed me by.
They've been stripped clean by a constant stream of jackals who came to feed.
Now when I sing they've got an empty ring and they don't fulfil my need.

CHORUS:
I'm going to sit on the shelf, keep myself to myself, if only for today.
I won't dissect what I feel, like some vast meal, for the gathering birds of prey.
What I was with you, and what we've gone through, they're ours alone, God knows!
And I can't stand to bare us, cut up and share us, with the eagles and the crows....



the gathering birds of prey



Well I started to tell my tale about you but the people queued to be cruel.
They'd applaud the songs but behind their hands they said I acted like a fool.
And there's no amount of music could be worth the things I lost.
So the story of us will remain untold until I'm sure about the final cost!

CHORUS:
I'm going to sit on the shelf, keep myself to myself, if only for today.
I won't dissect what I feel, like some vast meal, for the gathering birds of prey.
What I was with you, and what we went through, they're ours alone, God knows!
And I can't stand to bare us, cut up and share us, with the eagles and the crows....



the gathering birds of prey


Lyrics & Music: © Rosie Hardman 1978


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....the gathering birds of prey....
Original Digital Artwork by
Linda White
Thank You Linda!