[00:01.47]Hey, little songbird, give me a song
[00:06.13]I’m a busy man and I can’t stay long
[00:11.62]I got clients to call, I got orders to fill
[00:18.38]I got walls to build, I got riots to quell
[00:24.24]And they’re giving me hell back in Hades
[00:29.98]Hey, little songbird, cat got your tongue?
[00:35.39]Always a pity for one so pretty and young
[00:41.49]When poverty comes to clip your wings
[00:48.62]And knock the wind right out of your lungs
[00:53.14]Hey, nobody sings on empty
[00:58.95]Strange is the call of this strange man
[01:04.63]I want to fly down and feed at his hand
[01:10.45]I want a nice soft place to land
[01:15.93]I wanna lie down forever
[01:19.68]Hey, little songbird, you got something fine
[01:24.35]You’d shine like a diamond down in the mine
[01:29.79]And the choice is yours if you’re willing to choose
[01:35.70]Seeing as you’ve got nothing to lose
[01:42.50]And I could use a canary
[01:48.00]Suddenly nothing is as it was
[01:53.68]Where are you now, Orpheus?
[01:59.34]Wasn’t it always the two of us
[02:05.01]Weren’t we birds of a feather?
[02:08.27]Hey, little songbird, let me guess
[02:12.94]He’s some kind of poet and he’s penniless
[02:18.59]Give him your hand, he’ll give you his hand-to-mouth
[02:26.23]He’ll write you a poem when the power’s out
[02:30.87]Hey, why not fly south for the winter?
[02:36.76]Hey, little songbird, look all around you
[02:42.20]See how the vipers and vultures surround you
[02:48.10]They’ll take you down, they’ll pick you clean
[02:54.42]If you stick around such a desperate scene
[03:00.25]See, people get mean when the chips are down