Hey, Little Songbird-Anaïs Mitchell

[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