Sally's Pigeons-Cyndi Lauper

[ti:Sally's Pigeons] [ar:Cyndi Lauper] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.68]When I was eight I had a friend [00:04.67] [00:05.41]With a pirate smile [00:09.41]Make believe and play pretend [00:12.98]We were innocent and wild [00:16.88] [00:17.95]Hopped a fence and slammed the gate [00:21.32] [00:22.13]Running down my alleyway [00:26.12]In time to watch Sally's pigeons fly [00:36.26] [00:37.44]We loved to watch them dive and soar [00:40.88] [00:41.62]Circle in the sky [00:44.92] [00:45.49]Free as a bird from three to four [00:49.55]And never knowing why [00:52.92] [00:54.28]Neighbors pulled their wash back in [00:57.79] [00:58.59]Put away my Barbie and Ken [01:02.34]Look out overhead [01:04.70]While Sally's pigeons fly [01:10.51] [01:11.26]I had a fool's confidence [01:14.84]That the world had no boundaries [01:19.20]But instincts and common sense [01:23.39]Come in different quantities [01:30.00] [01:30.63]My heart began to [01:32.19]Skip to the beat [01:34.19] [01:35.31]Of the boy next door [01:37.81] [01:39.18]She had her eye across the street [01:42.86]On someone shy and tall [01:46.66] [01:47.60]We lived our dreams [01:49.10]And challenged fate [01:51.92]In tears she told me she was late [01:55.85]And Sally let his pigeons out to fly [02:06.90] [02:24.49]On the dresser sits a frame [02:27.93] [02:28.80]With a photograph [02:31.42] [02:32.55]Two little girls in ponytails [02:36.42]Some twenty one years back [02:40.66]She left one night with just a nod [02:45.40]Was lost from some back alley job [02:49.65]I close my eyes and Sally's pigeons fly [02:56.38]She never saw those birds again [02:59.75] [03:00.44]And me I can't remember when [03:04.61]A pirate smile hasn't made me cry [03:12.19] [03:12.75]I close my eyes [03:15.70]And Sally's pigeons fly