Cage The Songbird-Kiki Dee

[ti:Cage The Songbird] [ar:Kiki Dee] [al:Original Album Series] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cage The Songbird - Kiki Dee [00:31.75]Sober in the morning light [00:36.38] [00:37.37]Things look so much different [00:40.11]To how they looked last night [00:43.84] [00:44.79]A pale face pressed to an unmade bed [00:50.13] [00:50.66]Flags of many nations flying high above her head [00:57.04] [00:58.30]Tellophane still on the flowers [01:04.72] [01:05.43]Telegram in her hand [01:09.19] [01:11.88]As whispers circulate all day [01:16.92] [01:18.09]Their back-stage baby princess passed away [01:22.63] [01:24.36]You can cage the songbird [01:27.80] [01:28.44]You can't make her sing [01:31.21] [01:32.47]You can trap the free bird [01:35.01]But you'll have to clip her wings [01:37.95]'Cause she'll soar like a hawk when she flies [01:44.70] [01:45.23]But she'll dive like an eagle when she dies [01:50.83] [02:05.97]Promises of no more lies [02:11.09] [02:11.97]Fell flat upon an empty stage [02:15.30]Before the audience arrived [02:18.67] [02:19.59]A return in time to the cheaper seats [02:24.28]She never knew what lay beneath [02:26.83]Just a dated handbill they found between the sheets [02:31.31] [02:33.38]Let down before the final curtain [02:39.27] [02:39.95]A shallow heart that left her cold cold [02:45.96] [02:46.51]She left in rouge upon the mirror [02:52.68]A circled kiss to the faithful who'd mïss her [02:58.09] [02:58.67]You can cage the songbird [03:02.12] [03:02.84]You can't make her sing [03:05.50]You can trap the free bird [03:08.74] [03:09.35]But you'll have to clip her wings [03:11.54] [03:12.11]'Cause she'll soar like a hawk when she flies [03:19.35]She'll dive like an eagle when she dies [03:24.85] [03:26.06]She'll dive like an eagle when she dies