Four black-feathered birds
Watch o'er the earth
Down through the pine
Three echoes I heard
Of yesterday's words
Drowning my mind
In the swell of my memories
I see the old way that I came
Shake awake with a little spark
Double take through the dark
Try'n to find light through the pain
Two ways to get lost
Counting the cost
My head comes up short
One other it seems
The heart as it bleeds
Can break and distort
If the heart has a problem the head's gonna need to get help
That old way put a fear in me
Keep trudging through the trees
I need to get back to myself
I feel like a loaded gun
Only the shells are hollowed out
I crawl back like a long-gone son
I'm gonna need you to hold me down
Cause there ain't nobody else who can handle me just as I am
Won't you come take the weight
I don't have much more strength for today
And the skies are beginning to look like they'll rain
Won't you come, show me a sign, make it alright
Four black-feathered birds
Are following me
Singing their song
I hear yesterday's words
Setting me free
So I can sing right along
I feel like a loaded gun
Only the shells are hollowed out
I fam back like a long-gone son
I'm gonna need you to hold me down
Cause there ain't nobody else who can handle me just as I am
There ain't nobody else who can handle me just as I am
I said there ain't no one else
I said there ain't no one else
I looked all over, there's no one else
My sweet Lord, there ain't no one
Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody,
Nobody, nobody, no