Blackbird Sonnets Songtext / Lyric

Sonnet I

How shall I fly

When feathers be not mine

Though all my wishes

Skyward do attend

How tie my wounded heartstrings safe to thine

So thou to me

Like sun to moon

Descend

Or if thou wilt not bend thy starry frame

Wishing to keep thy brow o'ercrowned with mist

I'll rise

So that thy place shall stay the same

But will not then depart from heights

Unkiss'd

For bargains may be struck

And kept with pride

When lovers from their just demands

Ne'er hide






Sonnet II

My lover's eyes are darker than the moon

Or are they brighter?

I cannot decide

His tender voice makes other's out of tune

And shows me how I cannot them abide

His movements are of more than feline grace

His hands are soft

And pale as ivory

And though I've rarely seen

A stranger face

More perfect looks

I should abhor to see

For others may be pleasanter in part

But all my love

Remains a work of art



Sonnet III

How is it

That I smile

When I am sad?

From what resource do I derive this strength?

I've lost none

But a thing I never had

To keep it

Would I go to any length

But distance

Is not measured in a heart

So I could weep

And say that I've been wronged

And yet, as ever

Be so far apart

From him

To whom

I swore that I belonged

Alas

I blame as though he were untrue

I loved him

But, poor fool

He never knew



Sonnet IV

If all you love I am

As I am quite

Then why dost thou not love?

Dost thou not see

A plainly perfect match?

If thou art bright

Then why

When thou dost love

Love'st thou not me?

Instead preferring someone

Far removed

From all you claim to most admire?

I would

Commit you as a lunatic

If proved

Thus mad you were my ward

For your own good

And yet I'm making light of my own pain

Because I finally love

Yet love in vain