The Thorn Bird
Story: http://blog.udn.com/janeju/519153
Story: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/thornbirds/thornbirds.htm
Lyric:
Ooh, short and sweet
No sense in dragging on past our needs
Let's don't keep it hanging on
If the fire's out, we should both be gone
(Chorus:)
Some people are made for each other
Some people can love one another for life
How 'bout us?
Some people can hold it together
Last through all kind of weather
Can't we?
Now, don't you get me wrong
(What you sayin' to me, baby?)
'Cause I'm not tryin' now to end it all
(Let's start something)
It's just that I have seen (What have you seen?)
Too many lovers' hearts lose their dreams
(We won't lose it)
(Repeat chorus)
How 'bout us, how 'bout us, baby? (3x)
(Bridge:)
Are we gonna make it, girl
Or are we gonna drift and drift and drift together?
(Repeat chorus, ad lib, and fade)
THE THORN BIRDS
By Colleen McCullough
Long Ago, there was a bird who sang just once in its life.
From the moment it left its nest, it searched for a thorn tree.
and it never rested until it found one.
Then it began to sing more sweetly
than any other creature on the face of the earth.
And singing, it impaled its breast on the longest, sharpest thorn.
But as it was dying, it rose above its own agony
to out-sing the lark and the nightingale.
The thorn bird pays its life for that one song
and the whole world stills to listen
and God, in His heaven ~smiles.
As its best was bought only at the cost of great pain.
Driven to the thorn, with no knowledge of the dying to come.
But when we press the thorn to our breast,
We know........
We understand.....
And still......we do it.
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